The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico / / Giambattista Vico.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Vico, Giambattista,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bergin, Thomas Goddard.; Fisch, Max Harold.
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the development of concepts central to his mature work. Beyond its relevance to the development of the New Science, the Autobiography is also of interest for the light it sheds on Italian culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Still regarded by many as the best English-language translation of this classic work, the Cornell edition was widely lauded when first published in 1944. Wrote the Saturday Review of Literature: "Here was something new in the art of self-revelation. Vico wrote of his childhood, the psychological influences to which he was subjected, the social conditions under which he grew up and received an education and evolved his own way of thinking. It was so outstanding a piece of work that it was held up as a model, which it still is."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Porcia's "Proposal" and Vico's Autobiography -- II. The Autobiography and the New Science -- III. The New Science -- IV. Vico's Reputation and Influence -- THE LIFE OF GIAMBATTISTA VICO -- Part A, 1725 -- Part B, 1725, 1728 -- Continuation by the Author, 1731 -- Continuation by Villarosa, 1818 -- NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION -- NOTES TO THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES -- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE -- INDEX -- Index of Personal Names