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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