Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333551530)

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 of European ideas lies in his strong anti-Cartesian, anti-French and anti-Enlightenment views. In an age in which intellectuals adopted a rational approach, Vico stressed the nonrational element in man - in particular, imagination - as well as social and civil relationships, none of them reducible to the scientific theories so popular in his time.

Author: Cecilia Miller
ISBN-10: 0333551532
ISBN-13: 9780333551530
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/31/1993
Pages: 203
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d