Vico : a study of the "New science"
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Vico : a study of the "New science"
Cambridge University Press, 1990
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 242-247
Includes index
Previous ed.: 1975
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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.
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 The ideal eternal history: its historical content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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