For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the
social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here
Giuseppe Mazzotta, one of the leading Italianists in the United
States, shows how much Vico, properly read, can bring to an
understanding of contemporary social problems. To explore Vico's body
of thought in all its monumental complexity, Mazzotta highlights the
place of poetry, or "writerliness," in Vico's educational project,
which links literature, history, religion, philosophy, and politics.
The New Map of the World is the first book since Benedetto Croce's The
Philosophy of G. B. Vico (1911) to interpret the immense range of
Vico's creativity. Beginning with Vico's autobiography, Mazzotta
explains that Vico's heroic attempt to unite the arts and sciences was
meant to offer a desperately needed political unity to modern society.
In contrast to past thematic studies of Vico that focus on a single
one of his ideas, The New Map of the World explores the vital
interaction of the issues that fascinated him: his educational and
political project, his sense of the necessity for a new way of
conceiving authority, and his belief in the power of poetry. Mazzotta
ends by examining Vico's awareness of the tragic limits of politics
itself. Originally published in 1999. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts
of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to
vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its
founding in 1905.
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9781400864997
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2014
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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