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Book SynopsisFor today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here Giuseppe Mazzotta, one of the leading Italianists in the United States, shows how much Vico, properly read, can bring to an understanding of contemporar
Trade Review"Mazzotta has presented us with a fascinating portrait of a complex philosopher... Mazzotta's sure understanding of the texts at issue, coupled with a forceful prose style, makes this book required reading for anyone trying to understand Vico's encyclopedic thought."--James B. South, International Philosophical Quarterly
Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Vico's TextsIntroduction3Ch. 1The Life of a Philosopher16Ch. 2The Idea of the University40Ch. 3The Historian of Modernity65Ch. 4A Poetic Encyclopedia95Ch. 5From the Myth of Egypt to the Gaia Scienza113Ch. 6The Homeric Question140Ch. 7The Theater of the Law162Ch. 8The Political Philosophers182Ch. 9The Ricorso: A New Way of Seeing206Ch. 10The Bible234Primary Sources257Index261
