Probing the natural law: McLuhan's reading of Vico

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction to Giambattista Vico: The Anglo-American perspective 1
5. Vico, Burke, and Frye's flirtation with the sublime 35
6. Metaphor and language learning: A Vichian perspective 51
7. Cognitive science: Toward a Vichian perspective 63
8. Vico and second language acquisition 87
9. Probing the natural law: McLuhan's reading of Vico 99
10. Logic in modern linguistic theorizing: A Vichian perspective 113
11. Vico's Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness: The common essence of nations as a sign 121
12. Vico and current work in cognitive linguistics 127
13. The origins of myth: Promethean or Orphic? 147
14. From Vico to Cassirer to Langer 159
15. The study of Vico worldwide and the future of Vico studies 171
16. From images to words: Language education in a Vichian perspective 189
17. Imaginative universals 201
18. An overview of recent Anglo-American Vico scholarship for the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences 213
19. Vico and theories of change in language 237
20. Imagination and memory in Vico and Joyce 243
21. A selected bibliography of recent Anglo- American Vico scholarship in the contemporary behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences 249
22. Index 273