Giambattista Vico
Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist
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18th-century Italian philosopher who pushed back hard against Descartes and the rationalist crowd, arguing you can't reduce human life to pure logic. Basically invented modern social science and semiotics before those fields had names.
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Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, finding Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism impractical to human life, and he was an apologist for classical antiquity and the Renaissance humanities, in addition to being the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics. He is recognised as one of the first Counter-Enlightenment figures in history.
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