Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs

A Study of Sematology
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-30987-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

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

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trabant, Jürgen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Donald Phillip VereneTranslator's PrefaceReferences, Editions, Abbreviations, AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Mr Vico, Renato and Philology2. Vico's Discovery: Poetic Characters3. Gestures and Objects (sémata), Words4. The Common Mental Dictionary5. Speaking by Writing (Derrida -- Rousseau)6. Speaking by Singing (Herder)7. Memoria-fantasia-ingegno8. Vico and Humboldt on Imagination and LanguageWorks CitedIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jürgen 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 Jürgen Trabant, of New Essays on the Origin of Language (2001).