Goetsch, James Robert

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In spite of the importance of Giambattista Vico--the Italian philosopher whose reflections on history, metaphysics, rhetoric, law, and other subjects were influential in the shaping of modernity--scholars have debated whether he presented a coherent philosophy or simply a set of…

In this book James Goetsch argues that Vico's major work, the New Science, is a sustained, controlled poetic-philosophical meditation on the human world and that it is a philosophy in its own right. According to Goetsch, Vico proposes that we abandon the alliance between logic …