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Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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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 power of classical rhetorical thought, especially that
of Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian. Yet as a historian of the
failure of Naples as a self-determining political community, he had
no illusions about the possibility or worth of democratic and
republican systems of government in the post-classical world. As
Marshall demonstrates, by jettisoning the assumption that rhetoric
only illuminates direct, face-to-face interactions between orator
and auditor, Vico reinvented rhetoric for a modern world in which
the Greek polis and the Roman res publica are no longer
paradigmatic for political thought.
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