9781880393246

Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 1995. Paperback. Book Condition: New. (318 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. If among the many truths of Giambattista Vico's New Science there is one that is deepest, it is the truth that anguage, mind, and society are but three modes of a common reaity. In Vico's term, that reaity is the monde civie, the word of man. It is a word of many guises and faces. If refected in a mirror, those faces woud revea an image of the fu array of contemporary arts and sciences, a the discipines of earning and technique by which, so Vico judged, humanity attains its perfection. Humanity in its perfection, however, is so rare a moment, so deicate and subte a state, that it is never to be found among the nations of the word -- or is found in so fragie a form that it threatens aways to crack and fa to the ground. In the West, a persistent ine of thinking that has fourished from time to time hods that anguage is primary in cuture, metaphor a necessity, and jurisprudence our highest achievement. This was the position of Vico, who not ony received and cherished the tradition, but ooked deepy into it, saw what its principes impied, and so made ready for the great socia theorists of the nineteenth century. That is the thesis of this work. After an introductory chapter on Vico himsef -- in which his inteectua word and his movements within it are sketched -- the work unfods in three parts. These parts successivey treat rhetoric, pedagogy, and cuture, each proceeding from a major Vichian text. Contents: Preface. Vico: Pedagogy and Cuture. Rhetoric: Res and Verba. Pedagogy: Ingenuity and Pubic Life. Cuture: Wisdom and Eoquence. Concusion. Vico's Writings. (Paperback). Bookseller Inventory # AG1880393247

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