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Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
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Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
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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. 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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