Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) Naples

Encyclopedia Entries

Giambattista Vico	Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Giambattista Vico	Encyclopedia Britannica
Giambattista Vico	Encarta
Giambattista Vico	Catholic Encyclopedia

 

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Italian philosopher. In Principi di una scienza nuova d'intorno alla comune natura delle nazioni (Principles of a New Science of the Common Nature of Nations) (1725)  Vico argued that study of the cycles exhibited in human history rests on a foundation and methodology (distinct from that pursued by the natural sciences) under which the genius of each age must be understood in its own terms alone. This position was a significant influence on the work of Hegel, Marx, and Croce.

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Commentaries

Recommended Reading: Benedetto Croce, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico, tr. by Alan Sica (Transaction, 2001) ; 

Vico, ed. by Robert Mayer and J.P. Flint (Ayer, 1979) ;

 Leon Pompa, Vico: A Study of the 'New Science' (Cambridge, 1990) ; 

Mark Lilla, G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (Harvard, 1994) ; 

and Isaiah Berlin, Three Critics of the Enlightenment (Princeton, 2000) .

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Vico, Giambattista (1668-1744)

 

Also see Giorgio Pinton, Centro di Studi Vichiani, OCP, LiberLiber, Randall E. Auxier, Steven Kreis, ColE, Joseph P. Vincenzo, Nancy du Bois, ELC, noesis, BIO, Dan Bucsescu, and MacE.