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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.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Mr. Vico, Renato, and Philology; Chapter 2 Vico’s Discovery; Chapter 3 Gestures and Objects (S?mata), Words; Chapter 4 The Common Mental Dictionary; Chapter 5 To Speak by Writing (Derrida-Rousseau); Chapter 6 To Speak by Singing (Herder); Chapter 7 Memoria-Fantasia-Ingegno; Chapter 8 Vico and Humboldt on Imagination and Language;
Biography
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, and 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 Nexu Essays on the Origin of Language (2001).
