The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-107-02587-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico's New Science (1744) - the French historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), the Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941), the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909–97) - came to find in Vico's work the inspiration for their own modern theories (or, in the case of Joyce, stories) of human life and history. Mali's reconstruction of the specific biographical and historical occasions in which these influential men of letters encountered Vico reveals how their initial impressions and interpretations of his theory of history were decisive both for their intellectual development and their major achievements in literature and thought. This new interpretation of the legacy of Vico's New Science is essential reading for all those engaged in the history of ideas and modern cultural history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mali, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichtsphilosophie, Philosophie der Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Jules Michelet: Vico and the origins of nationalism; 3. James Joyce: Vico and the origins of modernism; 4. Erich Auerbach: Vico and the origins of historicism; 5. Isaiah Berlin: Vico and the origins of pluralism; 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Mali, Joseph
Joseph Mali teaches European intellectual history in the Department of History at Tel-Aviv University. His publications include The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico's New Science (1992) and Mythistory: The Making of a Modern Historiography (2003).

Joseph Mali teaches European intellectual history in the Department of History at Tel-Aviv University. His publications include The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico's New Science (1992) and Mythistory: The Making of a Modern Historiography (2003).