Este trabalho investiga a concepção de História do filósofo setentrista italiano Giambattista Vico. Ele baseia-se na leitura da principal obra de Vico, Scienza Nuova (1744), assim como na leitura de três outros livros do autor: Autobiografia, Il Metodo Degli Studi Del Tempo Nostro e Dell Antichissima Sapienza Italica. Nosso objetivo é descobrir e descrever o que Vico chamou de Historia Ideal Eterna, uma concepção renovada da História Humana. / This work investigates the Eighteenth Century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vicos conception of History. It is based on a reading of Vicos main work Scienza Nuova (1744), supported by a reading of three other books from the author: Autobiografia, Il Metodo Degli Studi Del Tempo Nostro and Dell Antichissima Sapienza Italica. Our aim is to discover and also describe what Vico called Ideal Eternal History, a renewed conception of Human History.

Storytelling is often looked at as something archaic or something that simpler cultures engage in. However, in our sophisticated and highly technological world storytelling swirls about us though we may not always recognize it. This thesis looks at the phenomenon of digital storytelling that functions to create community on the Internet. In order to ground this phenomenon in theory, I examine the works of Giambattista Vico, the 18th-century Neapolitan philosopher/rhetorician, who lived on the cusp of the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Furthermore, as a teacher of rhetoric to youth, Vico admonished young people to study the arts of poetry, painting, and oratory. These three arts are part of digital storytelling with the story line, visuals, and voice over. Digital storytelling, therefore, reaches more people because these arts are easily understood and accepted by people of all ages and education. Marshall McLuhan, the 20th-century Canadian scholar was an eclectic critic of technology and culture who anticipated the Internet. McLuhan used Vichian theory as the basis for some of his writings on technology. My study synthesizes and makes connections between McLuhan's writings on technology and the particular technology of digital storytelling. The new technologies bring back a secondary orality as well as more visual communication such as the radio and television in a print saturated culture. Today we are living in a world where writing, the spoken word and music, and visual images blend together in the digital milieu of the Internet. Digital storytelling is just one way that technology is being used to enhance an ancient genre. As one of its goals is to create community, this genre is trying to achieve what McLuhan suggested in the coming together of a global village.

A partir da ideia de uma imanência materialista, a tese procura esboçar um sistema estético que se contraponha aos sistemas estéticos românticos e idealistas (principalmente confrontando-­se com noções provenientes do platonismo e do idea-­ lismo alemão e, também, com algumas noções de M. Heidegger). No percurso da tese são centrais as discussões sobre a possibilidade de se pensar por imagens e so-­ bre as implicações filosóficas, políticas, ideológicas e históricas da necessidade de se embaralhar ciência com poesia. O trabalho, pensado a partir de Ulysses de James Joyce, procura compreender o que as concepções de história, filosofia e política po-­ dem aprender com a experiência da literatura e para isso, a tese analisa principalmente as obras de Homero, Platão, G. Vico, Th. Adorno e B. Espinosa; além desses autores, há uma presença forte das obras de K. Marx e S. Beckett. O trabalho se desdobra a partir do capítulo doze de Ulysses, em que Leopold Bloom se confronta com o cidadão. Este confronto, em um pub de Dublin, é a uma espécie de me-­ tempsicose anacrônica do confronto ente Odisseu e Polifemo na caverna homérica. A tese analisa cinco reencarnações históricas deste confronto cavernoso, respecti-­ vamente seguindo a ordem dos capítulos, temos: cap. I -­ Ulysses de Joyce; cap. II a Dialética do Esclarecimento de Adorno e Horkheimer, principalmente Ulisses ou Mito e Esclarecimento; Cap. III a Ciência Nova de Vico, principalmente A descoberta do Verdadeiro Homero; Cap. IV -­ a Odisséia de Homero interpretada por meio da astu-­ ciosa inteligência da Métis grega; Cap. V -­ Ulysses de Joyce, principalmente o cap. XII do romance. A conclusão procura retraçar o percurso da tese, demonstrando como uma ideia de imanência materialista com base na filosofia de Espinosa esteve implíci-­ ta como o fundamento de nossa proposta de uma Estética da Imanência. / Centred on an idea of materialistic immanence, the thesis aims to outline an aesthetic \"system\" in opposition to the romantic and idealistic aesthetic systems (confronting mainly with aesthetic notions from Platonism and German idealism, but also with some notions from M. Heidegger). In the course of the thesis it is central to discuss about the possibility of thinking through images and the implications for philosophical, political and historical need to mix up science with poetry. The work, conceived regarding James Joyce\'s Ulysses, aims to understand what the conceptions of history, philosophy and politics can learn from the experience of literature, for this, the thesis analyses the works of Homer, Plato, G. Vico, Th. Adorno and B. Spino-­ za, in addition to these authors, there is a strong presence of K. Marx and S. Beckett. The work unfolds from the 12th chapter of Ulysses, where Bloom confronts the citi-­ zen. This confrontation in a Dublin pub is an anachronic \"metempsychosis\" of the confrontation between Odysseus and Polyphemus in the Homeric cave present in the Odyssey. The thesis examines five historical \"reincarnations\" of this cavernous confrontation, following the order of the chapters, we have: ch. I -­ Joyce\'s Ulysses; ch. II -­ Dialectic of Enlightenment, especially \'Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment\' by Adorno and Horkheimer; ch. III -­ New Science, especially \'The discovery of the True Homer\' by Giambattista Vico; ch. IV -­ Homers Odyssey interpreted through the cunning intelligence of the Greek Métis; ch V -­ Joyce\'s Ulysses, especially chap. XII of the novel. The conclusion of the work aims to retrace the course of the thesis demonstrating how an idea of materialistic immanence based on the philosophy of Spinoza was implicitly the fundament of our Aesthetics of Immanence.

A partir da ideia de uma imanência materialista, a tese procura esboçar um sistema estético que se contraponha aos sistemas estéticos românticos e idealistas (principalmente confrontando-­se com noções provenientes do platonismo e do idea-­ lismo alemão e, também, com algumas noções de M. Heidegger). No percurso da tese são centrais as discussões sobre a possibilidade de se pensar por imagens e so-­ bre as implicações filosóficas, políticas, ideológicas e históricas da necessidade de se embaralhar ciência com poesia. O trabalho, pensado a partir de Ulysses de James Joyce, procura compreender o que as concepções de história, filosofia e política po-­ dem aprender com a experiência da literatura e para isso, a tese analisa principalmente as obras de Homero, Platão, G. Vico, Th. Adorno e B. Espinosa; além desses autores, há uma presença forte das obras de K. Marx e S. Beckett. O trabalho se desdobra a partir do capítulo doze de Ulysses, em que Leopold Bloom se confronta com o cidadão. Este confronto, em um pub de Dublin, é a uma espécie de me-­ tempsicose anacrônica do confronto ente Odisseu e Polifemo na caverna homérica. A tese analisa cinco reencarnações históricas deste confronto cavernoso, respecti-­ vamente seguindo a ordem dos capítulos, temos: cap. I -­ Ulysses de Joyce; cap. II a Dialética do Esclarecimento de Adorno e Horkheimer, principalmente Ulisses ou Mito e Esclarecimento; Cap. III a Ciência Nova de Vico, principalmente A descoberta do Verdadeiro Homero; Cap. IV -­ a Odisséia de Homero interpretada por meio da astu-­ ciosa inteligência da Métis grega; Cap. V -­ Ulysses de Joyce, principalmente o cap. XII do romance. A conclusão procura retraçar o percurso da tese, demonstrando como uma ideia de imanência materialista com base na filosofia de Espinosa esteve implíci-­ ta como o fundamento de nossa proposta de uma Estética da Imanência. / Centred on an idea of materialistic immanence, the thesis aims to outline an aesthetic \"system\" in opposition to the romantic and idealistic aesthetic systems (confronting mainly with aesthetic notions from Platonism and German idealism, but also with some notions from M. Heidegger). In the course of the thesis it is central to discuss about the possibility of thinking through images and the implications for philosophical, political and historical need to mix up science with poetry. The work, conceived regarding James Joyce\'s Ulysses, aims to understand what the conceptions of history, philosophy and politics can learn from the experience of literature, for this, the thesis analyses the works of Homer, Plato, G. Vico, Th. Adorno and B. Spino-­ za, in addition to these authors, there is a strong presence of K. Marx and S. Beckett. The work unfolds from the 12th chapter of Ulysses, where Bloom confronts the citi-­ zen. This confrontation in a Dublin pub is an anachronic \"metempsychosis\" of the confrontation between Odysseus and Polyphemus in the Homeric cave present in the Odyssey. The thesis examines five historical \"reincarnations\" of this cavernous confrontation, following the order of the chapters, we have: ch. I -­ Joyce\'s Ulysses; ch. II -­ Dialectic of Enlightenment, especially \'Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment\' by Adorno and Horkheimer; ch. III -­ New Science, especially \'The discovery of the True Homer\' by Giambattista Vico; ch. IV -­ Homers Odyssey interpreted through the cunning intelligence of the Greek Métis; ch V -­ Joyce\'s Ulysses, especially chap. XII of the novel. The conclusion of the work aims to retrace the course of the thesis demonstrating how an idea of materialistic immanence based on the philosophy of Spinoza was implicitly the fundament of our Aesthetics of Immanence.

<p>I denna kandidatuppsats undersöks narrativer och argumentation i Jan Björklunds pluggskola. Bakgrunden till uppsatsen är att undersöka hur politiker använder berättelsens övertygande kraft för att vinna röster, och huruvida en argumentation baserat på narrativer är hållbar. Materialet som ligger till grund för denna uppsats är insamlade debattartiklar och uttalanden där Jan Björklund presenterar sin skolpolitik. Teorierna som denna uppsats grundar sig på är den retoriska pedagogiken utifrån Quintilianus och Giambattista Vico, samt det sociokulturella perspektivet på pedagogik. Dessutom används psykologiteorier om narrativens funktion för människans förståelse. Som metod används Ernest G. Bormanns fantasy-themeanalys samt argumentationsanalysen utvecklad av Frans van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst och Francisca Snoeck Henkemans. Resultaten som framkommit av analysen är att Björklund använder narrativen i argumentativt syfte vilket gör hans argumentation icke hållbar och fallasityngd.</p> / <p>This essay examines narratives and argumentation in Jan Björklunds pluggskolan. The background for this essay is to investigate how politicians use the narratives argumentative force to persuade and if an argument based on a narrative is durable. The material contains articles and statments by Jan Björklund concerning the swedish school system.The theories used in this essey are the rhetoric view on pedagogy, based on Quintilian and Giambattista Vico, and the sociocultural view on pedagogy. The essay also uses psychological theories on the narrative function of human understanding. The methods used in this essay is Bormanns Fantasy theme criticism and the argumentation analysis developed by Frans van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans. The results of this essay are that Jan Björklund uses the narrative as arguments, which leads to non-durable argumentation.</p>

I denna kandidatuppsats undersöks narrativer och argumentation i Jan Björklunds pluggskola. Bakgrunden till uppsatsen är att undersöka hur politiker använder berättelsens övertygande kraft för att vinna röster, och huruvida en argumentation baserat på narrativer är hållbar. Materialet som ligger till grund för denna uppsats är insamlade debattartiklar och uttalanden där Jan Björklund presenterar sin skolpolitik. Teorierna som denna uppsats grundar sig på är den retoriska pedagogiken utifrån Quintilianus och Giambattista Vico, samt det sociokulturella perspektivet på pedagogik. Dessutom används psykologiteorier om narrativens funktion för människans förståelse. Som metod används Ernest G. Bormanns fantasy-themeanalys samt argumentationsanalysen utvecklad av Frans van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst och Francisca Snoeck Henkemans. Resultaten som framkommit av analysen är att Björklund använder narrativen i argumentativt syfte vilket gör hans argumentation icke hållbar och fallasityngd. / This essay examines narratives and argumentation in Jan Björklunds pluggskolan. The background for this essay is to investigate how politicians use the narratives argumentative force to persuade and if an argument based on a narrative is durable. The material contains articles and statments by Jan Björklund concerning the swedish school system.The theories used in this essey are the rhetoric view on pedagogy, based on Quintilian and Giambattista Vico, and the sociocultural view on pedagogy. The essay also uses psychological theories on the narrative function of human understanding. The methods used in this essay is Bormanns Fantasy theme criticism and the argumentation analysis developed by Frans van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans. The results of this essay are that Jan Björklund uses the narrative as arguments, which leads to non-durable argumentation.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation is the result of research work linked to the Graduate Program in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy of the Federal University of Uberlandia, the work is embodied in the Research Line "Social and Political Philosophy." The theme of the research was to investigate the concept of wisdom in poetic magnum opus of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744). The problem formulation of the research allowed a brief investigation of the philosophical context in which the works of Vico caught the debate on the formation of civil society, but especially the man who is. The Neapolitan philosopher runs through the history of philosophy and aims to discover the true wisdom of the ancients from its method elucidated here. This research topic is covered in the second chapter, which discusses Vico's arguments about the wisdom of men in dark times and fabulous. The third chapter presents the method of philosophical-philological of Vico, that based upon the concept of poetic wisdom examines the wisdom of Homer, or the discovery of the true Homer. In short, the dissertation allows further discussion of the philosophical assumptions of the history of nations that can be known with the approach of fables, which were responsible for the preservation of the first human ideas born in the world of gentility. / Esta dissertação é o resultado do trabalho de pesquisa vinculado ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; o trabalho está inscrito na Linha de Pesquisa Filosofia Social e Política . O tema da pesquisa foi a investigação do conceito de sabedoria poética na obra magna de Giambattista Vico (1668-1744). A formulação do problema da pesquisa permitiu uma breve investigação sobre o contexto filosófico com o qual as obras de Vico travaram o debate relativo à formação da sociedade civil, mas, sobretudo do homem que a constitui. O filósofo napolitano percorre a história da filosofia e se propõe a descobrir a verdadeira sabedoria dos antigos a partir do seu método aqui elucidado. Este tópico da pesquisa é contemplado no segundo capítulo, onde se discute os argumentos de Vico a respeito da sabedoria humana nos tempos obscuros e fabulosos. O terceiro capítulo apresenta a aplicação do método de investigação filosófica-filológica de Vico, que embasado no conceito de sabedoria poética analisa a sabedoria de Homero, ou, a descoberta do verdadeiro Homero. Em suma, a dissertação permite o aprofundamento da discussão dos pressupostos filosóficos da História das Nações que podem ser conhecidos com a abordagem das fábulas, que foram responsáveis pela preservação das primeiras idéias humanas nascidas no mundo da gentilidade. / Mestre em Filosofia

The Rococo period in the arts, flourishing mainly from about 1710 to about 1750, was stylistically unified, but nevertheless its tremendous productivity and appeal throughout Occidental culture has proven difficult to explain. Having no contemporary theoretical literature, the Rococo is commonly taken to have been a final and degenerate form of the Baroque era or an extravagance arising from the supposed careless frivolity of the elites, including the intellectuals of the Enlightenment. Neither approach adequately accounts for Rococo style. Naming the Rococo raises profound issues for understanding the relations between conception and production in historical terms. Against the many difficulties that the term has involved in accounting for an immense but elusive cultural movement, this thesis argues that some of the chief philosophical conceptions of the period clarify the particular character and significance of Rococo production. Rococo production is here studied chiefly in decor, architecture, and the plastic arts. This thesis also makes an extended general argument for the value of intellectual history. Rococo style is a group of visual effects of which the central character is atectonicity. This is established by a synthesizing overview of Rococo ornamental motifs. Principal theorists of post-Cartesian thought have failed to see how these distinguish Rococo style from both Baroque and Enlightenment culture. The analysis addresses the historical narratives of Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault, Deleuze, and others about Baroque and Enlightenment culture. The core historical claim of this thesis is that Rococo atectonic effects are visual forms of the anti-materialist, idealist ontology of George Berkeley and of the metaphysics and ontology in the early work of Giambattista Vico. Close readings of important passages from works of both philosophers published in 1710 develop the relationship between atectonics and idealist ontology. Both men rejected the Baroque hierarchical cosmology in favor of finitude as the key to human understanding. The readings center on the issue of causality, including Berkeley's views of the perfect contingency of the world and on Vico's theories of truth and ingenium. A reading of Diderot's critique of the Rococo, which led the reaction to it, shows that he recognized the power of idealist ontology in the Rococo cultural production. The larger force in the rejection of Rococo is the emergence of the sublime as a morally fearful feature of physical nature. Montesquieu's aesthetic work also shows the transition to a more rigidly determined view of existence, which was expressed but constrained in the little-recognized lattice motif in Rococo arts. The result of these readings is the influence during and after the Rococo period of the concept of continuous creation, in which the memory and imagination of the human subject relays God-given powers of creation into the production of culture. Continuous creation also suggested a human capability to animate material nature. Rococo style displays this as a pre-cinematic effects that represent the non-material, non-causal deep structure of reality.