Myth and authority Giambattista Vico's early modern critique of aristocratic sovereignty
Living in a province dominated by powerful oligarchs, Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) concluded that political philosophy should work to undermine aristocratic authority and prevent political devolution into feudalism. Rejecting the possibility that the free market could successfully instill civil beh...
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Albany, NY
State University of New York Press
[2022]
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| Series: | SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18254218 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Use of Sources
- Approaching the New Science
- Giambattista Vico: Early Modern Philosopher
- Imaginative Universals
- Feudalism
- Secret Laws
- The Roman Pantheon
- Poetic Wisdom and Class Conflict
- Is Vico Right?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index