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Vico's "New Science"
A Philosophical Commentary
Inbunden, 2015
848 kr
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Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Scienza nuova), in which he sets forth the principles of humanity and gives an account of the stages common to the development of all societies in their historical life. Controversial at the time of its …
The New Art of Autobiography
An Essay on the Life of Giambattista Vico Written by Himself
Inbunden, 1991
1050 kr
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In this, the first full-length study of Vico's highly original autobiography, Professor Verene discusses its place in the history of the genre. The author views the autobiography as a work in which Vico applies the principles of human history discussed in his New Science, making the telling of his …
Symbol, Myth, and Culture
Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer, 1935-1945
Av Ernst Cassirer, Donald Phillip Verene
Häftad, 1981
528 kr
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The papers in this volume of Ernst Cassirer’s unpublished works give insight into the major issues that engaged Cassirer’s interest between 1935 and 1945. The book begins with his inaugural address at the University of Göteborg, Sweden, in the first years of his exile from Hitler’s Germany, and …
Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge
Inbunden, 2007
876 kr
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This book contends that both Anglo-American analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy have lost their vitality, and it offers an alternative in their place. Donald Phillip Verene advocates a renewal of contemporary philosophy through a return to its origins in Socratic humanism and to the …
Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms
Av Ernst Cassirer, John Michael Krois m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
473 kr
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At his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings and translated them into English for the first time, …
Knowledge of Things Human and Divine
Vico’s New Science and "Finnegans Wake"
Inbunden, 2003
966 kr
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This is the first book to examine in full the interconnections between Giambattista Vico’s new science and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Maintaining that Joyce is the greatest modern “interpreter” of Vico, Donald Phillip Verene demonstrates how images from Joyce’s work offer keys to Vico’s …
Speculative Philosophy
Inbunden, 2009
1356 kr
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In this original and illuminating work, the reader is invited to approach philosophy as an activity that can instruct, delight, and move. On this view, philosophy can be seen as a key to human education, a mastery of humane letters, and a part of the repulic of the liberal arts. Embracing this …
Hegel's Absolute
An Introduction to Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit
Häftad, 2007
338 kr
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Offers suggestions for approaching Hegel's most difficult and important work.Reputed to be one of the most difficult yet rewarding works of philosophical literature, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has long been in need of an introduction for English readers. Without using jargon or technical …
Vico's Science of Imagination
Inbunden, 1981
717 kr
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"This work is a full interpretation of Giambattista Vico's thought, based primarily on his major work, the New Science, and on his earlier Latin writings. It takes its beginning point from Vico's own claim that his conception of 'imaginative universals' is the 'master key' of his New …
Art of Humane Education
Inbunden, 2002
375 kr
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In The Art of Humane Education, Donald Phillip Verene presents a new statement of the classical and humanist ideals that he believes should guide education in the liberal arts and sciences. These ideals are lost, he contends, in the corporate atmosphere of the contemporary university, with its …
Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science"
Translations, Commentaries, and Essays
Av Giambattista Vico, Thora Ilin Bayer m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
248 kr
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Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work. Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene have collected a series of texts that help us to understand the progress of …
Vico's Science of Imagination
Häftad, 1991
476 kr
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"This work is a full interpretation of Giambattista Vico's thought, based primarily on his major work, the New Science, and on his earlier Latin writings. It takes its beginning point from Vico's own claim that his conception of 'imaginative universals' is the 'master key' of his New …
James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake
Häftad, 2016
477 kr
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James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write Finnegans Wake. Very few Joyce critics know enough about these philosophers and therefore often miss their influence …
James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake
Inbunden, 2016
1576 kr
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James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write Finnegans Wake. Very few Joyce critics know enough about these philosophers and therefore often miss their influence …
Vico and Joyce
Häftad, 1987
532 kr
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Joyce said, "My imagination grows when I read Vico as it doesn't when I read Freud or Jung." This volume is the first extended examination of the connections between Vico and Joyce. Joyce employed Vico's New Science as the basis of Finnegans Wake, as he employed Homer's Odyssey as the basis of …
Metaphysics and the Modern World
E-bok, 2016
364 kr
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Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle''s claim in his Metaphysics that …
Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy
Inbunden, 2021
675 kr
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Philosophy and rhetoric are both old enemies and old friends. In The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy, Donald Phillip Verene sets out to shift our understanding of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric from that of separation to one of close association. He outlines how ancient rhetors …
Philosophy of Literature
Four Studies
E-bok, 2018
387 kr
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The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies puts forth the question of the extent to which philosophers must go to school with the poets. It begins with a new interpretation of the famous Platonic quarrel with the poetic wisdom of Homer. It brings this question forward through the humanism of …
Moral Philosophy and the Modern World
E-bok, 2013
356 kr
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This work raises for the contemporary reader the ancient and abiding question of the nature and meaning of human virtue. In Part 1, it draws upon Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero and the works of Renaissance Christian humanists who were influenced by them, such as Pico, Vives, and Erasmus. The moral …
Science of Cookery and the Art of Eating Well
Philosophical and Historical Reflections on Food and Dining in Culture
Av Donald Phillip Verene, Alexander Gungov
Häftad, 2018
238 kr
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The Science of Cookery and the Art of Eating Well is a philosophical and historical reflection on food and dining in human culture. It includes discussions of the nature of the first meals as found in Greek literature and the philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico, the Roman cookbook of Apicius …
Poetic Apriori: Philosophical Imagination in a Meaningful Universe
Av Raymond C Barfield, Alexander Gungov m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
400 kr
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Theories about the nature and function of philosophical imagination depend on our understanding of what kind of universe we inhabit. Some theories are compelling if the universe is meaningful as a whole, but they make no sense if it is not. Raymond C. Barfield discusses conditions that would be …
Philosophical Ideas
A Historical Study
Av Thora Ilin Bayer, Donald Phillip Verene
Häftad, 2021
298 kr
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Philosophical Ideas: A Historical Study invites the reader to consider central ideas from Plato, Hegel, Vico, and Cassirer from points of view that have not been fully articulated in the most frequently encountered interpretations of their works. It is an examination of the ideas of poetics, …
Philosophic Spirit
Its Meaning and Presence
Häftad, 2023
369 kr
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The philosophic spirit has persisted as part of the human spirit and human culture for over twenty-five centuries. This book presents examples of this spirit from its beginnings in Greek thought through the modern age. Among these examples are an account of Empedocles jumping into the volcano of …
Philosophical Self-Knowledge
Two Studies
Häftad, 2024
309 kr
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The inscription on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Gnothi seauton (Know thyself), is taken up by Socrates and pursued as the center of philosophy. Self-knowledge is the theme that endures throughout the history of philosophy. It is a theme that philosophy shares with literature. We know ourselves …
