Vico and China

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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While the resonance of Giambattista Vico’s hermeneutics for postcolonialism has long been recognised, a rupture has been perceived between his intercultural sensibility and the actual content of his philological investigations, which have often been criticised as being Eurocentric and philologically spurious. China is a case in point. In his magnum opus New Science, Vico portrays China as backward and philosophically primitive compared to Europe.In this first study dedicated to China in Vico’s thought, Daniel Canaris shows that scholars have been beguiled by Vico’s value judgements of China without considering the function of these value judgements in his theory of divine providence. This monograph illustrates that Vico's image of China is best appreciated within the contemporary theological controversies surrounding the Jesuit accommodation of Confucianism.Through close examination of Vico’s sources and intellectual context, Canaris argues that by refusing to consider Confucius as a “filosofo”, Vico dismantles the rationalist premises of the theological accommodation proposed by the Jesuits and proposes a new functionalist valorisation of non-Christian religion that anticipates post-colonial critiques of the Enlightenment.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-11
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781789621068

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Daniel Canaris is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-Sen University. After receiving his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2017, he has held appointments in Australia, Germany and England. His current work focuses on the founder of the Jesuit China mission, Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607).

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AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: resurrecting the Chinese fossil‘A monstrous Chinese fossil’China and Confucianism in Vico’s NaplesVico and Jesuit accommodationismRevisiting the rozza e goffa philosophy of Vico’s ConfuciusPlan of this workChapter 1: Providence and Rome in the Diritto universaleRetheologising VicoBackground to grace and providence in Vico’s Diritto universaleProvidence between fate and chanceChapter 2: The problem of China in early modern historiographyPlacing China in a Judaeo-Christian metanarrativeDevelopment of the Jesuit view of ChinaChapter 3: The Scythian exception in the Diritto universaleThe Romans of the EastThe Scythians in early modern historiography and ethnographyVico’s Scythians and Noachide monotheismChapter 4: Towards a new theological valorisation of ChinaNormalising the ScythiansA hermeneutic of ignoranceDemystifying Chinese ideogramsRe-evaluating Jesuit accommodationismChapter 5: Poetic truth and Christian truthScienza versus coscienzaOntological truths and teologia civile ragionataConclusion: La discoverta del vero ConfucioBibliographyIndex