Vico and the transformation of rhetoric in early modern Europe /
[Book]
David L. Marshall.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
viii, 302 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
At the limits of classical rhetoric -- Redacting the art of persuasion -- An epistemic rhetoric -- Toward a hermeneutic theory of law and culture -- The new science of rhetoric.
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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 interpretation, Marshall examines the entirety of Vico's œuvre and situates him in the political context of early modern Naples.