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Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs Jurgen Trabant

Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs By Jurgen Trabant

Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs by Jurgen Trabant

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Jurgen Trabant reads the profound insights into human semiosis contained in Vico's 'sematology' as both a spirited rejection of Cartesian philosophy and an early critique of enlightened logocentricism.

Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs Summary

Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs: A Study of Sematology by Jurgen Trabant

Vico's philosophy of signs and its relation to human language is the most important area of contemporary Vico studies

Trabant considers this philosophy and its reception in the Western philosophical tradition including Vico's connection to Rousseau, Herder, Hegel and Humbolt

Sean Ward's translation makes this work available to an English -reading audience for the first time

About Jurgen Trabant

Jurgen Trabant is professor of French and Italian linguistics at the Free University Berlin. His main fields of research are the history of linguistics and language philosophy, semiotics, especially semiotics of literature and language politics. Sean Ward is a writer and translator. He lives in Arlington, Virginia and is co-editor, with Jurgen Trabant, of New Essays on the Origin of Language (2001).

Table of Contents

Foreword by Donald Phillip Verene Translator's Preface References, Editions, Abbreviations, Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Mr Vico, Renato and Philology 2. Vico's Discovery: Poetic Characters 3. Gestures and Objects (semata ), Words 4. The Common Mental Dictionary 5. Speaking by Writing (Derrida -- Rousseau) 6. Speaking by Singing (Herder) 7. Memoria-fantasia-ingegno 8. Vico and Humboldt on Imagination and Language Works Cited Index

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NLS9780415859974
9780415859974
0415859972
Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs: A Study of Sematology by Jurgen Trabant
Jurgen Trabant
Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2013-10-25
172
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