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- catalog abstract "Professor Pompa's study of Vico has done a great deal to stimulate and inform the growing interest in the English-speaking world in this remarkable figure. It remains the only work devoted almost exclusively to an interpretation of the New Science and offers a comprehensive guide to the main theoretical problems to which the text gives rise. For this second edition Professor Pompa has responded to the reactions of reviewers and critics and added a new chapter which analyses Vico's conception of the principles which govern the development of law.".
- catalog contributor b2797253.
- catalog created "1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1990.".
- catalog description "1. The structure of the Scienza Nuova --- 2. Critique of current historiography --- 3. Human nature and social change --- 4. Human nature and historical change --- 5. Providence --- 6. The character of Vico's metaphysics --- 7. The problem of knowledge --- 8. The problem of methodology --- 9. The ideal eternal history: its theoretical character --- 10. The ideal eternal history: its deductive character --- 11. The ideal eternal history: its sociological content --- 12. The ideal eternal history: its historical content --- 13. Philosophy and historical interpretation --- 14. Philosophy and historical confirmation --- 15. Theory of knowledge --- 16. The character of Vico's theory of knowledge --- 17. Law, providence and the barbarism of reflection --- 18. Appendix. Humanist interpretations.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-247) and index.".
- catalog description "Professor Pompa's study of Vico has done a great deal to stimulate and inform the growing interest in the English-speaking world in this remarkable figure. It remains the only work devoted almost exclusively to an interpretation of the New Science and offers a comprehensive guide to the main theoretical problems to which the text gives rise. For this second edition Professor Pompa has responded to the reactions of reviewers and critics and added a new chapter which analyses Vico's conception of the principles which govern the development of law.".
- catalog extent "xv, 251 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521382173".
- catalog identifier "0521388716 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "195 20".
- catalog subject "B3581.P73 P65 1990".
- catalog subject "History Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. Principi di una scienza nuova.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The structure of the Scienza Nuova --- 2. Critique of current historiography --- 3. Human nature and social change --- 4. Human nature and historical change --- 5. Providence --- 6. The character of Vico's metaphysics --- 7. The problem of knowledge --- 8. The problem of methodology --- 9. The ideal eternal history: its theoretical character --- 10. The ideal eternal history: its deductive character --- 11. The ideal eternal history: its sociological content --- 12. The ideal eternal history: its historical content --- 13. Philosophy and historical interpretation --- 14. Philosophy and historical confirmation --- 15. Theory of knowledge --- 16. The character of Vico's theory of knowledge --- 17. Law, providence and the barbarism of reflection --- 18. Appendix. Humanist interpretations.".
- catalog title "Vico : a study of the "new science" / Leon Pompa.".
- catalog type "text".