Originally published in English in 1980, "Rhetoric as Philosophy
"has been out of print for some time. The reviews of that English
edition attest to the importance of Ernesto Grassi's work.
By going back to the Italian humanist tradition and aspects of
earlier Greek and Latin thought, Ernesto Grassi develops a
conception of rhetoric as the basis of philosophy. Grassi explores
the sense in which the first principles of rational thought come
from the metaphorical power of the word. He finds the basis for his
conception in the last great thinker of the Italian humanist
tradition, Giambattista Vico (1668-1744). He concentrates on Vico's
understanding of imagination and the sense of human ingenuity
contained in metaphor. For Grassi, rhetorical activity is the
essence and inner life of thought when connected to the
metaphorical power of the word.
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