Myth and Authority : Giambattista Vico's Early Modern Critique of Aristocratic Sovereignty.
Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.
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Redwood City :
State University of New York Press,
2022.
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| Շարք: | SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy Ser.
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| Առցանց հասանելիություն: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18254218 |
Բովանդակություն:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Use of Sources
- 1. Approaching the New Science
- Ancient Pagan Religion and Problems of Interpretation
- Contextualizing Vico
- The Method of the New Science
- Freedom and Universal History in the New Science
- 2. Giambattista Vico: Early Modern Philosopher
- Beckett contra Berlin
- The Giants and the State of Nature
- Passions and Interests
- Jove and the Problem of Human Sociability
- 3. Imaginative Universals
- Vico's Discovery
- The Origin of Poetic Wisdom
- Godfrey and Darmok
- Nobility and Fandom
- The Poverty of Poetic Speech
- 4. Feudalism
- Merging Traditions
- Neapolitan Feudalism and Spanish Colonial Rule
- Feudal Judicial Authority in Naples
- Vassals and Fiefs
- Vico and i Togati
- 5. Secret Laws
- The Power of Mute Gestures
- The Problem of Secret Laws in Early Modern Thought
- Aristocratic Rule in the Ages of Gods and Heroes
- Secret Laws in the Study Methods
- Roman Law as Poetry
- 6. The Roman Pantheon
- Sensus Communis and the Possibility of Reform
- Overinclusion
- Juno, Goddess of Familial Judicial Authority
- Finding Settlements and Agriculture
- 7. Poetic Wisdom and Class Conflict
- Mars, God of Defense
- The Basis of the Class Division
- Naked Venus
- Minerva and Solon
- 8. Is Vico Right?
- Vico and Early Modern Thought
- Vico and Contemporary Italian Thought
- The Consolation of Philosophy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index