Giambattista Vico

Author : Giambattista Vico
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703005
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico written by Giambattista Vico and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the development of concepts central to his mature work. Beyond its relevance to the development of the New Science, the Autobiography is also of interest for the light it sheds on Italian culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Still regarded by many as the best English-language translation of this classic work, the Cornell edition was widely lauded when first published in 1944. Wrote the Saturday Review of Literature: "Here was something new in the art of self-revelation. Vico wrote of his childhood, the psychological influences to which he was subjected, the social conditions under which he grew up and received an education and evolved his own way of thinking. It was so outstanding a piece of work that it was held up as a model, which it still is."

Author : Giambattista Vico
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014190769X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Science written by Giambattista Vico and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1999-04-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

Author : Benedetto Croce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico written by Benedetto Croce and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thora llin Bayer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801474728
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giambattista Vico written by Thora llin Bayer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work.

Author : Aloysius Robert Caponigri
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412840057
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Idea written by Aloysius Robert Caponigri and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a shadowy figure in the history of philosophy, it was only in the twentieth century that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) achieved renown as a major and original thinker. There has been a steadily widening interest in this figure who, had he been known in his own day, might have altered the course of European thought. Much has been written in an attempt to clarify his historical stature, but in Time and Idea A. Robert Caponigri approaches Vico's thought in terms of its relevance to problems of modern philosophy. Viewing the essential problem of twentieth-century philosophy as the elimination of human subjectivity from nature, Caponigri shows how Vico offers us a principle for the vindication of our own spirituality through history. In Caponigri's reading, Vico establishes an absolute dichotomy between nature and history. The latter is seen as the sum of the active, fully realized human spirit and thus the context for the true understanding of human nature. Although Vico's major work, The New Science, incorporates vast amounts of concrete historical research and contruction, Caponigri's focus is on Vico's theoretical apparatus. Following an introductory biographical chapter, the author turns to Vico's theory of history, emphasizing its importance as a genuine philosophical undertaking rather than mere methodology. Caponigri shows how the speculative problem of history first presented itself to Vico in matters of jurisprudence and natural law from which he derived the concepts of time and idea as the terms in which the historical process of culture becomes comprehensible. He then introduces the human subject as the principle of the synthesis of time and idea, and discusses the Vichian concept of the "modification of the human mind," and his idea of "providence" as the rectifying principle of human history. First published in 1953, Time and Idea remains an essential contribution to the ongoing dialog on Vico's work.

Author : Luca Tateo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351517562
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giambattista Vico and the New Psychological Science written by Luca Tateo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giambattista Vico (1668?1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, and historian. As one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, he exerted tremendous influence on the social sciences. He was the first to stress cultural and linguistic dimensions in the development of both the human mind and social institutions. Although his ideas on the relationship between mind and culture and his epistemology have inspired the work of many scholars in psychology, his sizeable influence has been scarcely acknowledged. The volume is organized in two sections. The first locates Vico in his historical context and in the landscape of contemporary human and social sciences. The second part presents those of Vico's concepts that seem promising for the development of a new way of looking at psychological phenomena. In the book's conclusion, Luca Tateo gathers the ideas of the volume's contributors to suggest future development of the psychological sciences. This book aims to show how Vico's insights can inspire future research in the psychological sciences. It collects multidisciplinary contributions of leading international scholars that draw upon the thought of this original thinker. Collectively, the contributors remind us of the legacy and continuing influence of this inspiring historical figure.

Author : Giambattista Vico
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801412806
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians written by Giambattista Vico and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, originally published in 1710, is widely regarded as Vico's most significant work after the New Science and the Autobiography. Subtitled "The Book of Metaphysics," it was one of three planned volumes of a larger work that was never published, and it marks Vico's transition from rhetorician to philosopher of historical knowledge. This edition incorporates translations from the Italian of a contemporary review and Vico's responses, published in 1711 and 1712. L. M. Palmer's translation helps make more accessible a treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.

Author : Giambattista Vico
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150170298X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Science of Giambattista Vico written by Giambattista Vico and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory. It represents the most ambitious attempt before Comte at comprehensive science of human society and the most profound analysis of the class struggle prior to Marx.

Author : Cecilia Miller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349229334
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giambattista Vico written by Cecilia Miller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theories of language and society of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) are examined in this textual analysis of the full range of his theoretical writings, with special emphasis on his little-known early works. Vico's fundamental importance in the history of European ideas lies in his strong anti-Cartesian, anti-French and anti-Enlightenment views. In an age in which intellectuals adopted a rational approach, Vico stressed the nonrational element in man - in particular, imagination - as well as social and civil relationships, none of them reducible to the scientific theories so popular in his time.

Author : Giambattista Vico
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300136919
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians written by Giambattista Vico and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an illuminating introduction to the volume, Robert Miner elucidates Vico's short but difficult work; at the same time, he allows the reader to assess the importance of that work, in absolute terms as well as relative to Vico's other writings and the work of his numerous interlocutors in the republic of letters. --