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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Giambattista Vico"”.
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Vico's Narrative Art: From the Forests to the Academies
<p>In this dissertation, I argue that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), most famously considered a philosopher of history, is above all a philosopher of narration. I unfold Vico’s narrative response to and rejection of traditional philosophical discourse; through relating the story of himself and the …
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The role of language in the development of modernity: the discussion of origins of language in Rousseau and Vico
… of the characteristics of the modern mind. Giambattista Vico and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are focal points for this study because they most strongly and clearly express an awareness of the connection between modern consciousness and language.
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Some Measures of Ulysses
… of one of the earliest language theorists, Giambattista Vico, on Joyce's Ulysses; a brief review of the classical metaphysics; a detailed presentation of the Deconstructionist position; and an investigation into ways in which Joyce, and Ulysses, may be viewed as Modern and as Contemporary. …
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Digital Storytelling: The Application of Vichian Theory
… phenomenon in theory, I examine the works of Giambattista Vico, the 18th-century Neapolitan philosopher/rhetorician, who lived on the cusp of the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Furthermore, as a teacher of rhetoric to youth, Vico admonished young people to study the arts of poetry, …
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From Vico to Grassi: toward a rhetoric of openness
… discover presence, and penetrate the unknown. Giambattista Vico and Ernesto Grassi valorize the ever-expanding possibilities in language; like the early sophists, they call for discourse which uses details and examples in narrative, mythic, and allegorical modes. Vico's Imaginative …
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Gênese de um paradigma antropológico: o culturalismo na obra de Vico, Herder e Dilthey
… – respectivamente dedicados à análise da obra de Vico, Herder e Dilthey - e de uma conclusão, sendo que o capítulo referente a Dilthey substitui a nota metodológica. Trata-se de uma tentativa de inventariar os conceitos de Filosofia correntemente associados sob a forma do paradigma antropológico …
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Ratiocinium in the Architectural Practice of Giuseppe Terragni and its role in the relationship between architecture and the city during the modern movements in Italy
… in the pursuit. Not the least among them is Giambattista Vico who proposes that universal laws of development of men and society can be traced through the union between verum and factum. So, verum and factum become characters of the same play. Philology, love for reason, as a subspecies of …
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“The abnihilization of the etym”: Finnegans Wake ii.3 as oral poetry in the age of mechanical reproduction
… about what “oral poetry” means in light of Vico's "The Discovery of the True Homer," a chapter in his New Science, a book which influenced Joyce’s work on Finnegans Wake. The thesis next uses a Bakhtinian analysis to explore how these themes are foreshadowed in the opening chapters of the …
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Bureaucratic Modernity and the Erosion of Practical Reason: A Rhetorical Education as an Antidote
… episode in this narrative consists in a turn to Giambattista Vico’s rhetorical conception of human knowledge and action for the purpose of articulating a communication ethics of <em>prudentia</em>. Vico’s curricular vision promotes a rhetorical way of being in pragmatic contexts and offers a …