The New Map of the World : The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico

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For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here Giuseppe Mazzotta, one of the leading Italianists in the United States, shows how much Vico,...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Mazzotta, Giuseppe
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Vico, Giambattista, > 1668-1744.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here Giuseppe Mazzotta, one of the leading Italianists in the United States, shows how much Vico, properly read, can bring to an understanding of contemporary social problems. To explore Vico's body of thought in all its monumental complexity, Mazzotta highlights the place of poetry, or ""writerliness, "" in Vico's educational project, which links literature, history, religion, philosophy, and politics
Description:Cover; Contents.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (286 pages).
ISBN:9781400864997

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