LINGUIST List 15.1200
Tue Apr 13 2004
Books: Philosophy of Language: Trabant, Ward (Trans)
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Message 1: Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs: Trabant, Ward (Trans)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:47:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: kkaneta <kkanetataylorandfrancis.com>
Subject: Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs: Trabant, Ward (Trans)
Title: Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs
Subtitle: A Study of Sematology
Series Title: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Author: Jurgen Trabant
Translator: Sean Ward
Hardback: ISBN: 0415309875, Pages: 176, Price: U.S. $ 95.00
Abstract:
Giambattista Vico considered his greatest philosophical achievement to
be his discovery that early humans spoke in 'poetic
characters'. Vico's New Science is thus also a philosophy of signs or
semata. Jurgen 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.
Lingfield(s): History of Linguistics
Philosophy of Language
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
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