Truth and Authority in Vico's Universal Law (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820441269)

This is the first full-length study of Vico's Diritto Universale to be written in English. This study places the work within the wider traditions of Roman legal scholarship and natural law, which Vico was confronting. Truth and Authority in Vico's Universal Law breaks new ground in the treatment of Aristotelian influences on Vico. It examines Vico's idea that a theory founded on the subjective right of the single individual cannot be the foundation of social relationships. This entails the investigation of Vico's refusal to endorse rationality as the basis of authority and political agreement conceived as contract. It traces a continuity between the Diritto Universale and Vico's major work, the Scienza Nuova.

Author: Donald Philip Verene,Mirella Vaglio
ISBN-10: 0820441260
ISBN-13: 9780820441269
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1999
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover