The new map of the world : the poetic philosophy of Giambattista Vico / Giuseppe Mazzotta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 1942- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.

Vico, Giambattista.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. The New Map of the World is the first book since Benedetto Croce's The Philosophy of G. B. Vico (1911) to interpret the immense range of Vico's creativity.Beginning with Vico's autobiography, Mazzotta explains that Vico's heroic attempt to unite the arts and sciences was meant to offer a desperately needed political unity to modern society. In contrast to past thematic studies of Vico that focus on a single one of his ideas, The New Map of the World explores the vital interaction of the issues that fascinated him: his educational and political project, his sense of the necessity for a new way of conceiving authority, and his belief in the power of poetry. Mazzotta ends by examining Vico's awareness of the tragic limits of politics itself.Originally published in 1999.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Vice's Texts

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. The Life of a Philosopher

CHAPTER TWO. The Idea of the University

CHAPTER THREE. The Historian of Modernity

CHAPTER FOUR. A Poetic Encyclopedia

CHAPTER FIVE. From the Myth of Egypt to the Gaia Scienza

CHAPTER SIX. The Homeric Question

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Theater of the Law

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Political Philosophers

CHAPTER NINE The Ricorso: A New Way of Seeing

CHAPTER TEN. The Bible

Primary Sources

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-260) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400864997

1400864992

OCLC:

1013945324