Beschreibung:
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is often regarded as the beleaguered, neglected genius of pre-Enlightenment Naples. His work-though known to Herder, Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, and Michelet-widely and deeply appreciated only during the twentieth century. Although Vico may be best known for the use James Joyce made of his theories in Finnegans Wake, Croce's insightful analysis of Vico's ideas played a large role in alerting readers to his unique voice. Croce's volume preceded Joyce's creation of "Mr. John Baptister Vickar" by a quarter century.
I: Vigors Theory of Knowledge : First Phase; II: Vigors Theory of Knowledge : Second Phase; III: Internal Structure of the New Science; IV: The Imaginative Form of Knowledge (Poetry and Language); V: The Semi-Imaginative Form of Knowledge (Myth and Religion); VI: The Moral Consciousness; VII: Morality and Religion; VIII: Morality and Law; IX: The Historical Aspect of Law; X: Providence; XI: The Law of Reflux; XII: Metaphysics; XIII: Transition to History : General Character of Vico's Treatment of History; XIV: New Principles for the History of Obscure and Legendary Periods; XV: Heroic Society; XVI: Homer and Primitive Poetry; XVII: The History of Rome and the Rise of Democracy; XVIII: The Return of Barbarism : The Middle Ages; XIX: Vico and the Tendencies of Contemporary Culture; XX: Conclusion I Vico and the Later Developments of Philosophical and Historical Thought