Publication: Giambattista Vico: mimbres para una ciudadanía retórica y democrática
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2008
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Universidad de Sevilla
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Vico ofrece en la Scienza nuova los mimbres para que el gobierno del individuo sea respetuoso con todas sus voces, llevando la isegoría a lo que para Maimónides, como para el propio Vico, era el primer estadio de la ciencia política. El napolitano argumentaba que estudiando el gobierno de uno mismo podremos conocer mejor la ciudad. Él era consciente de que procediendo democráticamente en nuestro foro interno evitaremos luego la exclusión de quienes por distintas razones no son aceptados como ciudadanos por la comunidad política en la que viven. Cuando Vico recoge parte del legado de la retórica democrática en un contexto hostil, donde la retórica había sido arrinconada, amplía la idea de ciudadano retórico y democrático, justo en el momento en que triunfaba la identidad cartesiana que habría de vertebrar la ciudadanía moderna. Desde su admiración por el pensamiento judío y por la retórica clásica, Vico llevará a cabo su denuncia ante la presunta secularización racional de la ciudadanía ilustrada.
In Vico's Scienza Nuova can be found the elements required to govern the individual respecting all its inner voices, turning the isegoría into what Maimonides -and Vico himself- considered the first phase of political science. According to the Neapolitan writer, we can know the city better by studying how to govern ourselves. He was aware of the fact that acting democratically in our inner space may help to avoid the exclusion of those that, for different reasons, are not accepted as full citizens by the political community in which they live. He extends the conception of a rhetoric and democratic citizen by recovering part of the democratic rhetoric legacy; and he does so in a hostile context where rhetoric had been cornered, and the Cartesian model of identity was triumphing in a way that would mark modern citizenship. From his admiration for Jewish thought and classical rhetoric, Vico will denounce the alleged rational secularization of illustrated citizenship.
In Vico's Scienza Nuova can be found the elements required to govern the individual respecting all its inner voices, turning the isegoría into what Maimonides -and Vico himself- considered the first phase of political science. According to the Neapolitan writer, we can know the city better by studying how to govern ourselves. He was aware of the fact that acting democratically in our inner space may help to avoid the exclusion of those that, for different reasons, are not accepted as full citizens by the political community in which they live. He extends the conception of a rhetoric and democratic citizen by recovering part of the democratic rhetoric legacy; and he does so in a hostile context where rhetoric had been cornered, and the Cartesian model of identity was triumphing in a way that would mark modern citizenship. From his admiration for Jewish thought and classical rhetoric, Vico will denounce the alleged rational secularization of illustrated citizenship.