Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs A Study of Sematology [Paperback]

J?rgen Trabant reads the profound insights into human semiosis contained in Vico's 'sematology' as both a spirited rejection of Cartesian philosophy and an early critique of enlightened logocentricism. Sean Ward's translation makes this work available to an English-reading audience for the first time.J?rgen Trabantis professor of French and Italian linguistics at the Free University Berlin. His main fields of research are the history of linguistics and language philosophy, semiotics, especially semiotics of literature and language politics. Sean Wardis a writer and translator. He lives in Arlington, Virginia and is co-editor, with J?rgen Trabant, of New Essays on the Origin of Language(2001).