Vico's Axioms The Geometry of the Human World |
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| Author:
| Goetsch, James R. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-06272-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1995 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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In spite of the importance of Giovanni Battista Vico - the Italian philosopher whose reflections on history, metaphysics, rhetoric, law and other subjects were influential in the shaping of modernity - scholars have debated whether he presented a coherent philosophy or simply a set of provocative random ideas. In this study, James Goetsch argues that Vico's major work, the New Science, is a sustained, controlled poetic-philosophical meditation on the human world and that it is a...
More DescriptionIn spite of the importance of Giovanni Battista Vico - the Italian philosopher whose reflections on history, metaphysics, rhetoric, law and other subjects were influential in the shaping of modernity - scholars have debated whether he presented a coherent philosophy or simply a set of provocative random ideas. In this study, James Goetsch argues that Vico's major work, the New Science, is a sustained, controlled poetic-philosophical meditation on the human world and that it is a philosophy in its own right.