The New Map of the World : : The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico / / Giuseppe Mazzotta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mazzotta, Giuseppe,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Core Textbook
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 77
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.) :; 1 halftone

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Vice's Texts -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Life of a Philosopher -- CHAPTER TWO. The Idea of the University -- CHAPTER THREE. The Historian of Modernity -- CHAPTER FOUR. A Poetic Encyclopedia -- CHAPTER FIVE. From the Myth of Egypt to the Gaia Scienza -- CHAPTER SIX. The Homeric Question -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Theater of the Law -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Political Philosophers -- CHAPTER NINE The Ricorso: A New Way of Seeing -- CHAPTER TEN. The Bible -- Primary Sources -- Index