1st Edition

Giambattista Vico and the New Psychological Science

266 Pages

by Routledge

266 Pages

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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... Read more

Series Editor's Foreword: Imagining a New Science of Psychology
Jaan Valsiner

Preface: Why Social Sciences Need Vico
Luca Tateo

Introduction: What For?
Waldomiro Silva Filho

Part I. Vico in Context

1 Giambattista Vico: His Life, Times, Ideas,and His Relevance Today
Marcel Danesi
2 The Genesis of Vico's Ideas: An Explorative Study on Psychology as a Premise for the Verum Factum Principle
Sven Hroar Klempe
3 Vico—From Idealism to Cultural Psychology: Revising the Past for the Future
Gordana Jovanovi

Part II. Vico's Theoretical Concepts and Legacy

4 Vico, (Particular) Imaginative Universals, Divine Providence, and the Imaginative Work Needed in Relating Oneself to Others
John Shotter
5 Language, Mind, and Culture
Augusto Ponzio
6 Giambattista Vico's Common Sense
Ivana Markova
7 The Epistemic Value of Fantasy
Carlos Cornejo

Conclusion: Toward a New (Psychological) Science
Luca Tateo

References

Contributors

Index