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Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge

Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Modern History

PhilosophySports GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0333551532
ISBN13: 9780333551530
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 31 1993
Pages: 203
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The theories of language and society of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) are examined in this textual analysis of the full range of his theoretical writings, with special emphasis on his little-known early works. Vico's fundamental importance in the history of European ideas lies in his strong anti-Cartesian, anti-French and anti-Enlightenment views. In an age in which intellectuals adopted a rational approach, Vico stressed the nonrational element in man - in particular, imagination - as well as social and civil relationships, none of them reducible to the scientific theories so popular in his time.

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