The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History
- Author: Joseph Mali, Tel-Aviv University
- Date Published: November 2018
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107670839
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In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico's New Science (1744) - the French historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), the Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941), the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909–97) - came to find in Vico's work the inspiration for their own modern theories (or, in the case of Joyce, stories) of human life and history. Mali's reconstruction of the specific biographical and historical occasions in which these influential men of letters encountered Vico reveals how their initial impressions and interpretations of his theory of history were decisive both for their intellectual development and their major achievements in literature and thought. This new interpretation of the legacy of Vico's New Science is essential reading for all those engaged in the history of ideas and modern cultural history.
Read more- A highly original contribution to modern cultural theory from a distinguished historian of ideas
- Provides an important new interpretation of the legacy of a much debated eighteenth-century thinker
- Will appeal to a wide range of scholars interested in the development of modern literature, philosophy and history
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- Date Published: November 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107670839
- length: 295 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 150 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Jules Michelet: Vico and the origins of nationalism
3. James Joyce: Vico and the origins of modernism
4. Erich Auerbach: Vico and the origins of historicism
5. Isaiah Berlin: Vico and the origins of pluralism
6. Conclusion.
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