Exploring Vico's 'sematology,' Jürgen Trabant highlights its significant insights into human semiosis, presenting it as a vigorous challenge to Cartesian philosophy and an early critique of enlightened logocentricism. This work delves into the complexities of meaning-making and the philosophical implications of Vico's ideas, offering a fresh perspective on the interplay between language, thought, and understanding in human experience.
Jürgen 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.
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.