Includes bibliographical references and index. Translations, commentaries, and essays previously published in the annual New Vico studies, 1987-2006. "Vico's writings in English translation": p. 199-204.
Contents:
Introduction : interpreting the New science -- Synopsis of universal law -- The true and the certain : from On the one principle and one end of universal law -- A new science is essayed : from On the constancy of the jurisprudent -- On Homer and his two poems : from the Dissertations -- Vico's address to his readers from a lost manuscript on jurisprudence -- Vico's reply to the false book notice : the Vici vindiciae -- Vico's "ignota latebat" : on the impresa and the dipintura -- Vico's addition to the tree of the poetic sciences and his use of the muses -- Vico's reprehension of the metaphysics of ReneĢ Descartes, Benedict Spinoza, and John Locke.
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