Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe

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 new interpretation, David L. Marshall examines the entirety of Vico''s oeuvre and situates him in the political context of early modern Naples. Marshall presents Vico''s work as an effort to resolve a contradiction. As a profes...