ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter |10 pages

Vico's Discovery

Poetic characters

chapter |17 pages

Memoria-Fantasia-Ingegno