A Study On Quadruple Tropology

Tropic existed as the possibility of human imagination of the world. As the expression of human understanding and language,tropic imagination have the ability to determine all the possible ways about how to be. In the New Science, Vico put forward four basic categories of tropology which once existed as the poetic language modes used to understand and name the object by primitive humans so as to the profound influence on the whole historical process at the level of poetic logic:metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony. In the academical history, Hayden White first initiated the meaningful critical discovery and reflection on the quadruple tropology and launched its construction towards a organic system, making it a more complete theory. Based on the consciousness of reflection on methodology, Hayden White applied quadruple tropology as a meta-tropic in his historical poetics practice.So Hayden White have really acted as another guide about this study when his works provided us with a number of key ideas and theories resource. The organizational form and interior conversion mechanism of tropics are found from the semiotic rectangle through the study of Algirdas Julien Greimas’ structuralism Semiotics approaches which resulting in a meaning topographic map. The study on Kant’s transcendental philosophy show a intrinsic tropics embedded in his transcendental theory, meanwhile, where there is a tropic, there is the inherent transcendental and aesthetic dimension. Karl Marx’s theory about value form of commodity in his Das Kapital, Ernst Cassirer’s myth-religious thinking in his cultural philosophy and Hayden White’s historical poetics thought provide this study the very thinking horizon about the quadruple tropology’s practical activity and its presence or to be presence in the field of economic, cultural and historical of human civil world.