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Giambattista Vico

Imagination and Historical Knowledge

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Cecilia Miller

    1. Wesleyan University, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Cecilia Miller
    Pages 1-8

  3. Vico’s Intellectual Development

    • Cecilia Miller
    Pages 9-40

  4. Vico’s Early Writings, 1709–28

    • Cecilia Miller
    Pages 41-71

  5. La scienza nuova, 1725, 1730, 1744

    • Cecilia Miller
    Pages 72-96

  6. Language, Historical Reconstruction and the Development of Society

    • Cecilia Miller
    Pages 97-119

  7. Imagination and Historical Knowledge

    • Cecilia Miller
    Pages 120-142

  8. Conclusion

    • Cecilia Miller
    Pages 143-146

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 147-203
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wesleyan University, USA

    Cecilia Miller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Giambattista Vico

  • Book Subtitle: Imagination and Historical Knowledge

  • Authors: Cecilia Miller

  • Series Title: Studies in Modern History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22933-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-09719-6Due: 31 August 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-22933-8Published: 27 July 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 203

  • Topics: History of Science, History of Philosophy, Modern History

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