Considered the most original thinker in the Italian philosophical tradition, Giambattista Vico has been the object of much scholarly attention but little consensus. In this new interpretation, David L. Marshall examines the entirety of Vico s oeuvre and situates him in the political context of early modern Naples. He demonstrates Vico s significance as a theorist who adapted the discipline of rhetoric to modern conditions. Marshall presents Vico s work as an effort to resolve a contradiction. As a professor of rhetoric at the University of Naples, Vico had a deep investment in the explanatory...
Considered the most original thinker in the Italian philosophical tradition, Giambattista Vico has been the object of much scholarly attention but lit...
