Vico
A Study of the 'New Science'
2nd Edition
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- Author: Leon Pompa
- Date Published: October 1990
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521388719
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Professor Pompa's study of Vico has done a great deal to stimulate and inform the growing interest in the English-speaking world in this remarkable figure. It remains the only work devoted almost exclusively to an interpretation of the New Science and offers a comprehensive guide to the main theoretical problems to which the text gives rise. For this second edition Professor Pompa has responded to the reactions of reviewers and critics and added a new chapter which analyses Vico's conception of the principles which govern the development of law.
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'Dr Pompa has reconstructed Vico's arguments with a precision not to be found in Vico himself, and his work leads the reader in a progressive fashion to the fundamental insights upon which Vico's project is founded … No other work in English attempts to exposit Vico's thought with such clarity and systematic attention.' Philosophy and Rhetoric
See more reviews'Dr Pompa's analysis of the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of Vico's approach to history will be of great interest to today's student of the methodology of the social sciences.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: October 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521388719
- length: 268 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 141 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.385kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The structure of the Scienza Nuova
2. Critique of current historiography
3. Human nature and social change
4. Human nature and historical change
5. Providence
6. The character of Vico's metaphysics
7. The problem of knowledge
8. The problem of methodology
9. The ideal eternal history: its theoretical character
10. The ideal eternal history: its deductive character
11. The ideal eternal history: its sociological content
12. The ideal eternal history: its historical content
13. Philosophy and historical interpretation
14. Philosophy and historical confirmation
15. Theory of knowledge
16. The character of Vico's theory of knowledge
17. Law, providence and the barbarism of reflection
18. Appendix. Humanist interpretations
Bibliography
Index.
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