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Ong and Derrida on presence : a case study in the conflict of traditionsIn Michael Peters (ed.), Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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12This book introduces the thought of Giambattista Vico into the discussion about natural law. For many critics, natural law is not natural but a façade behind which lurks the supernatural - that is, revealed religion. While current notions of natural law are based on either Aristotelian/Thomistic principles or on Enlightenment rationalism, the book shows how Vico was the only natural law thinker to draw on the Roman legal tradition, rather than on Greek or Enlightenment philosophy. Specifically, …Read more
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89Sensus communis: Vico, rhetoric, and the limits of relativismDuke University Press. 1990.John D. Schaeffer shows how the seventeenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico synthesized Greek and Roman ideas of what "sensus communis" and what ...
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12Robert Darnton. "The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History" (review)New Vico Studies 3 (n/a): 201. 1985.
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1On the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Critical Legal Studies Conference and On Translating Vico’s Il diritto universaleNew Vico Studies 17 145-147. 1999.
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9Translator’s Preface to Giambattista Vico’s On the One Principle and One End of Universal LawNew Vico Studies 21 25-32. 2003.
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85Ong and Derrida on presence: A case study in the conflict of traditionsEducational Philosophy and Theory 40 (7): 856-872. 2008.Ong and Derrida are concerned with presence—for Ong the presence of the other; for Derrida the presence of the signified. These seemingly disparate epistemological meanings of 'presence' actually share some striking similarities, but differ about how reason should be figured, that is, what metaphors should be used to conceptualize reason. This disagreement is fundamentally about what Ong called 'analogues for intellect.' After describing the history of Ong's and Derrida's concept of presence, we…Read more
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15From wit to narration; Vico¿s theory of metaphor in its rhetorical contextNew Vico Studies 2 (n/a): 71-74. 1984.
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20Vico's Rhetorical Model of the Mind: 'Sensus Communis' in the "De nostri temporis studiorum ratione"Philosophy and Rhetoric 14 (3). 1981.
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