1st Edition

Time and Idea The Theory of History in Giambattista Vico

By A. Caponigri Copyright 2004
243 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
I: An Obscure Life; II: The Natural Law; III: The Science of Humanity; IV: The Modifications of the Human Mind; V: Providence; VI: Ideal Eternal History and the Course of the Nations in Time; VII: ‘Ricorsi’; VIII: Philosophy And Philology; IX: Poetry, Myth, and Language; X: Homer; XI: The Theory of the State

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A. Caponigri