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Considered the most original thinker in the Italian philosophical tradition, Giambattista Vico has been the object of much scholarly attention but little consensus. In this new interpretation, David L. Marshall examines the entirety of Vico's oeuvre and situates him in the political context of early modern Naples. Marshall presents Vico's work as an effort to resolve a contradiction. As a professor of rhetoric at the University of Naples, Vico had a deep investment in the explanatory power of classical rhetorical thought, especially that of Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian. Yet as a historian of the failure of Naples as a self-determining political community, he had no illusions about the possibility or worth of democratic and republican systems of government in the post-classical world. As Marshall demonstrates, by jettisoning the assumption that rhetoric only illuminates direct, face-to-face interactions between orator and auditor, Vico reinvented rhetoric for a modern world in which the Greek polis and the Roman res publica are no longer paradigmatic for political thought.

Rhetoric --- Philosophy. --- Vico, Giambattista, --- Vico, G. --- Vico, G. B. --- Vico, Giovanni Battista, --- Vico, Juan Bautista, --- Pikʻo, --- Vico, Giovan Battista, --- ויקו, ג׳מבטיסטה, --- Weike, --- 维柯, --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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The origin of language is one of the deep mysteries of human existence. Drawing upon the work of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, Marcel Danesi fashions a persuasive, original account of the evolution and development of language. Seeking to reconstruct the primitive mind that generated language and the evolutionary events that must have preceded the advent of speech, he takes Vico's insight that mind, culture, and language evolved from the uniquely human faculty known as fantasia ("the imagination") and sketches a "primal scene" of compelling interest. Danesi identifies metaphor, the feature of mind that transforms iconic, perceptual thinking into conceptual thinking, as the crucial event in the Vichian scenario. The description of this scenario forms the core of Vico, Metaphor, and the Origin of Language. Danesi then evaluates the Vichian reconstruction of the origin of language in light of contemporary research in the cognitive, social, and biological sciences and with competing theories.

Metaphor. --- Language and languages --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Origin. --- Origin --- Vico, Giambattista, --- Vico, G. --- Vico, G. B. --- Vico, Giovanni Battista, --- Vico, Juan Bautista, --- Pikʻo, --- Vico, Giovan Battista, --- ויקו, ג׳מבטיסטה, --- Weike, --- 维柯,

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In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico's New Science (1744) - the French historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874), the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - came to find in Vico's work the inspiration for their own modern theories (or, in the case of Joyce, stories) of human life and history. Mali's reconstruction of the specific biographical and historical occasions in which these influential men of letters encountered Vico reveals how their initial impressions and interpretations of his theory of history were decisive both for their intellectual development and their major achievements in literature and thought. This new interpretation of the legacy of Vico's New Science is essential reading for all those engaged in the history of ideas and modern cultural history.

Civilization --- Cultural history --- History. --- Vico, Giambattista, --- Vico, G. --- Vico, G. B. --- Vico, Giovanni Battista, --- Vico, Juan Bautista, --- Pikʻo, --- Vico, Giovan Battista, --- ויקו, ג׳מבטיסטה, --- Weike, --- 维柯, --- Influence. --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Georges Sorel’s Study on Vico is a revelatory document of the depths and stakes of French social thought at the end of the 19th century. What brought Sorel to the 18th century Neapolitan theorist of history? Acute awareness of the limitations of Marxist thought in his day, a profound concern with the material underpinnings of language, law, and culture, and the imperative to understand the possibilities of revolutionary change. We find here a different Sorel, one who speaks in surprising ways to the 21st century. The translation is accompanied by an introduction and by a set of notes which situate the text both in Sorel’s overall intellectual trajectory and in the fin de siècle debates from which it emerged.

Philosophy, Marxist. --- Philosophy, Italian. --- Social sciences --- Philosophy. --- Vico, Giambattista, --- Sorel, Georges, --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Italian philosophy --- Marxian philosophy --- Marxist philosophy --- Communism and philosophy --- Sorel, George, --- Sorel, Jorge, --- Sorelʹ, Zhorzh, --- Сорель, Жорж, --- Vico, G. --- Vico, G. B. --- Vico, Giovanni Battista, --- Vico, Juan Bautista, --- Pikʻo, --- Vico, Giovan Battista, --- ויקו, ג׳מבטיסטה, --- Weike, --- 维柯, --- History of ideas

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Rhetoric --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- History --- Vico, Giambattista, --- Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, --- Monboddo, James Burnett, --- Burnet, James, --- Monboddo, --- Bonnot de Condillac, Etienne, --- Kondilʹi︠a︡k, E., --- De Condillac, Etienne Bonnot, --- Bonnot, Etienne, --- Condillac, Etienne de, --- Kondilʹi︠a︡k, Ėtʹenn Bonno de, --- Condillac, --- Kondilliak, --- Vico, G. --- Vico, G. B. --- Vico, Giovanni Battista, --- Vico, Juan Bautista, --- Pikʻo, --- Vico, Giovan Battista, --- ויקו, ג׳מבטיסטה, --- Weike, --- 维柯, --- Contributions in rhetoric. --- Кондильяк, Е., --- Кондильяк, Этьенн Бонно де,