Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge (Studies in Modern History) - Hardcover
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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Cecilia Miller is Assistant Professor of European Intellectual History at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0312097190
- ISBN 13 9780312097196
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages214
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