Institutions, power and language: On the recent reception of Vico in Argentina (2003-2018)

Abstract

The paper aims to show an overview about the historical philosophical research on Giambattista Vico in Argentina from 2003 to 2018. Throw this overview, I defend the following these. This research was focused on three topics: institutions, power and language. The paper begins with a reconstruction of the Argentineans works on Vico’s historical conception on social and political institutions. After that, are presented the Argentineans works on Vico’s theory of political power and on connection between the tradition of rhetoric and Vico’s theory of language and poetic wisdom. There is a large presence of Cuadernos sobre Vico.