What is it about?
This article offers a study of the context in which "De ratione", Vico's famous speech, was delivered. It also presents an analysis of Vico's conspiratorial project among the sciences, an alternative path to Cartesianism that provides a rhetorical foundation for current interdisciplinary studies.
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Why is it important?
Today, inter- and transdisciplinarity are essential to understand and face the major challenges of the 21st century. In this article, an original and pioneering proposal by Giambattista Vico, formulated in 1708, De nostri temporis studiorum ratione, is recovered. His lucidity in confronting the division of Cartesian studies, then a novelty, brings valuable novelties to our gaze, which has been accustomed to these divisions for centuries. The study of the context also provides original and crucial aspects of what is considered his most famous speech.
Perspectives
Working from different disciplines is much more than just combining some studies and others. The sense that science takes on when the different sciences rhetorically conspire to save the city, or the planet, is clearly shown in the Viquian proposal presented here.
Víctor Alonso-Rocafort
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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This page is a summary of: Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences, History of the Human Sciences, July 2023, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/09526951231186314.
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