This collection of 12 essays are a result of a December 1999 colloquium at the Berlin Academy which brought together researchers currently involved in the debate over the origin of language. Topics i
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is best known for his epic poem la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), written in what became standardized Italian. In Convivio and De Vulgari Eloquentia, Dante treated te
Jurgen 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
