Giambattista Vico Imagination and Historical Knowledge
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
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J. G. A. Peacock, Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University Hagen Schulze, Professor of History, Universitiit der Bundeswehr, Miinchen Norman Stone, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford Gordon Wood, Professor of History, Brown University The recent proliferation of controversy in many areas of modern history has had common causes. The revision of assumptions and orthodoxies, always professed as the role of scholarship in each generation but seldom really attempted, has increasingly become a reality. Historians previously unused to debating their major I?remises have been confronted by fundamental challenges to their subjects - the reconceptualisation of familiar issues and the revision of accepted chronological, geographical and cultural frameworks have characterised much of the best recent research. Increasingly, too, areas of scholarship have passed through this phase of conflict and recasting, and works of synthesis are now emerging in idioms which incorporate new perspectives on old areas of study. This series is designed to accommodate, encourage and promote books which embody the latest thinking in this idiom. The series aims to publish bold, innovative statements in British, European and American history since the Reformation and it will pay particular attention to the writings and insights of younger scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
Giambattista Vico Imagination and Historical Knowledge Cecilia Miller Assistant Professor of European Intellectual History Wesleyan University. Connecticut
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ISBN 978-1-349-22933-8 (eBook) ISBN 978-1-349-22935-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22933-8 First published in the United States of America 1993 by Scholarly and Reference Division, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010
ISBN 978-1-349-22935-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Miller, Cecilia. Giambattista Vico : imagination and historical knowledge I Cecilia Miller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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I. History-Philosophy. 2. Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. 3. Imaginati