The Autobiography Of Giambattista Vico
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Book: Fair
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Pages: Good
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Few documents in the history of Western thought are as audacious and self-revealing as a philosopher writing his own intellectual biography — and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico stands as a singular monument to that tradition. Written by the great Neapolitan thinker himself, this remarkable work chronicles Vico's intellectual development from his humble origins in late seventeenth-century Naples through his lifelong struggle for recognition as a philosopher, jurist, and rhetorician in a world dominated by Cartesian rationalism. With disarming candour and a scholar's precision, Vico maps the growth of his own mind, tracing the influences, setbacks, and breakthroughs that led him to formulate his revolutionary theory of historical cycles, most fully realised in his masterwork, The New Science. Translated from the Italian by the distinguished scholars Max Harold Fisch and Thomas Goddard Bergin, this edition presents Vico's self-portrait with both scholarly rigour and remarkable readability, making a complex thinker accessible without diminishing his depth. Vico's prose is dense with the ambition of a man who felt perpetually undervalued by his contemporaries, lending the autobiography a quiet, burning urgency that transcends mere intellectual memoir. His ideas on the cyclical nature of history, the primacy of poetic wisdom, and the constructed nature of human knowledge anticipate movements in philosophy, anthropology, and literary theory by centuries. For anyone seeking to understand the origins of modern historicism and the philosophical imagination of the Baroque age, this autobiography is not merely a starting point — it is an essential reckoning.
Author: Giambattista Vico
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few documents in the history of Western thought are as audacious and self-revealing as a philosopher writing his own intellectual biography — and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico stands as a singular monument to that tradition. Written by the great Neapolitan thinker himself, this remarkable work chronicles Vico's intellectual development from his humble origins in late seventeenth-century Naples through his lifelong struggle for recognition as a philosopher, jurist, and rhetorician in a world dominated by Cartesian rationalism. With disarming candour and a scholar's precision, Vico maps the growth of his own mind, tracing the influences, setbacks, and breakthroughs that led him to formulate his revolutionary theory of historical cycles, most fully realised in his masterwork, The New Science. Translated from the Italian by the distinguished scholars Max Harold Fisch and Thomas Goddard Bergin, this edition presents Vico's self-portrait with both scholarly rigour and remarkable readability, making a complex thinker accessible without diminishing his depth. Vico's prose is dense with the ambition of a man who felt perpetually undervalued by his contemporaries, lending the autobiography a quiet, burning urgency that transcends mere intellectual memoir. His ideas on the cyclical nature of history, the primacy of poetic wisdom, and the constructed nature of human knowledge anticipate movements in philosophy, anthropology, and literary theory by centuries. For anyone seeking to understand the origins of modern historicism and the philosophical imagination of the Baroque age, this autobiography is not merely a starting point — it is an essential reckoning.