Rebuilding post-Revolutionary Italy Leopardi and Vico's 'new science'
"The rediscovery of the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1774) - especially his New science - is a post-Revolutionary phenomenon. Stressing the elements that keep society together by promoting a sense of belonging, Vico's philosophy helped shape a new Italian identity and intellectual cl...
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Oxford :
Voltaire Foundation
2018
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| Colección: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991002280049708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Vico's legacy, Vico's 'heir'
- Diffraction
- The structure of this work
- 1. Forms of Italian modernity
- The power of the origins
- Belief
- 2. Principium
- The pride, the origins and the destiny of the nation
- Epics, poetry, creation and nation-building
- 3. Fictio
- Redefining fiction
- Translating and mediating the ancient world
- Was Vico Classicist or Romantic?
- Fiction and/as belief
- 4. Mythos
- Mytho-logein: Vico and Leopardi as mythologists
- Towards 'Alla Primavera': Leopardi's itineraries in myth (1815-1818)
- 'Alla Primavera': about (un)poetic logic
- 5. Philology and epos
- Florence 1827-1828: refoundation, recovery, reconstruction
- Zibaldone 4311-4417: Leopardi inside Homer's system
- 6. Recourse
- Rereading Vico in post-Revolutionary Naples: history, progress, perfectibility
- 'Cantare la religione civile': Vico's ideas in poetry
- Regress, disbelief and fable in Leopardi's last works
