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Vico and the maker's knowledge tradition : praxis and history / Maurizio Esposito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esposito, Maurizio, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
- Vico, Giambattista.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Practice (Philosophy).
- epistemology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Explores the possibility that Vico envisioned a non-Cartesian version of modernity, where praxis, rather than reason, drives human history. This alternative modernity has directly or indirectly influenced some of the most significant philosophical traditions of the past two centuries and is still relevant today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the ‘maker’s knowledge tradition’ through and beyond Vico
- Maker’s knowledge traditions between ancients and moderns
- Vico and the making of ‘praxis epistemology’
- After and beyond Vico
- Praxis epistemology I : from Vico to Marxism
- Praxis epistemology II : from Vico to Pragmatism
- Praxis epistemology III : from Vico to Phenomenology
- Conclusion : techne and physis, again.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 03, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Esposito, Maurizio Vico and the maker's knowledge tradition
- ISBN:
- 9781009436007
- 1009436007
- OCLC:
- 1517428510
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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