Giambattista Vico : imagination and historical knowledge / Cecilia Miller
1993, First Edition. New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #393876
ISBN: 0333551532
Physical description; xi, 203 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.
Contents; 1. Vico's Intellectual Development -- 1. Vico's Orations (1699, 1700, 1701, 1704, 1705, 1707) and His Supposed Epistemological Break (1710) -- 2. Verum ipsum factum -- 3. Categories of Historical Knowledge -- 4. A Critique of Collingwood -- 5. Historical Cycles -- 6. Historical Sense -- 7. History as a Science -- 2. Vico's Early Writings, 1709-1728 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. De nostri temporis studiorum ratione (1709) -- 3. De antiquissima italorum sapientia (1710) -- 4. Il diritto universale (1720-22) -- 5. La scienza nuova prima (1725) -- 6. Vita di Giambattista Vico scritta da se medesimo (1725, 1728) -- 3. La Scienza Nuova, 1725, 1730, 1744 -- 1. The Three Editions -- 2. Vico's Vocabulary -- 3. Uniformity of Ideas -- 4. Sapienza volgare -- 5. Religion and Society -- 6. Free Will -- 7. Formation of Society: The Taming of Primitive Man -- 8. Setti di tempi -- 9. New Critical Art -- 4. Language, Historical Reconstruction and the Development of Society -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Vico and Early Language -- 3. Language as an Instrument of Human Thought -- 4. The History which Vico Sought -- 5. Myths -- 6. Social Institutions -- 7. Order in Myths -- 8. Imagination and Historical Reconstruction -- 5. Imagination and Historical Knowledge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fantasia as the Poetic, Recreative Instinct -- 3. Fantasia as the Expression of the Spirit of a Particular Age -- 4. Fantasia as la scienza nuova -- 5. History -- 6. Historical Knowledge -- 7. Fantasia -- 8. Other Interpretations -- 9. A Critique of Berlin. Subjects; Vico, Giambattista 1668-1744. History Philosophy. Imagination.
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