The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- PREFACE -- I. Vico's THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE : FIRST PHASE -- II. Vico's THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE: SECOND PHASE -- III. INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE NEW SCIENCE -- IV. THE IMAGINATIVE FORM OF KNOWLEDGE (POETRY AND LANGUAGE) -- V. THE SEMI-IMAGINATIVE FORM OF KNOWLEDGE (MYTH AND RELIGION) -- VI. THE MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS -- VII. MORALITY AND RELIGION -- VIII. MORALITY AND LAW -- IX. THE HISTORICAL ASPECT OF LAW -- X. PROVIDENCE -- XI. THE LAW OF REFLUX -- XII. METAPHYSICS -- XIII. TRANSITION TO HISTORY: GENERAL CHARACTER OF Vico's TREATMENT OF HISTORY -- XIV. NEW PRINCIPLES FOR THE HISTORY OF OBSCURE AND LEGENDARY PERIODS -- XV. HEROIC SOCIETY -- XVI. HOMER AND PRIMITIVE POETRY -- XVII. THE HISTORY OF ROME AND THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY -- XVIII. THE RETURN OF BARBARISM : THE MIDDLE AGES -- XIX. VlCO AND THE TENDENCIES OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE -- XX. CONCLUSION : Vico AND LATER THOUGHT, PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL -- APPENDICES -- I. ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF G.B. Vico -- II. THE LATER HISTORY OF Vico's THOUGHT -- III. THE SOURCES OF Vico's THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE -- IV. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- NOTE.-PASSAGES OF Vico's WORKS TO WHICH ESPECIAL REFERENCE is MADE IN THE COURSE OF THE EXPOSITION -- INDEX OF NAMES