| On Humanistic Education: Six Inaugural Orations, 1699 1707 Contributor(s): Vico, Giambattista (Author), Pinton, Giorgio A. (Translator), Shippee, Arthur W. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0801480876 ISBN-13: 9780801480874 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $30.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Aims & Objectives - Philosophy | Epistemology - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 370.112 |
| LCCN: 92056787 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.54" W x 8.44" (0.50 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six first statement of ideas that Vico would continue to refine throughout his life. Delivered between 1699 and 1707 to usher in the new academic year at the University of Naples, the orations are brought together here for the first time in English in an authoritative translation based on Gian Galeazzo Visconti's 1982 Latin/Italian edition. In the lectures, Vico draws liberally on the classical philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship between the Greek dictum Know thyself' and liberal education. As he sets forth the values and goals of a humanist curriculum, Vico reveals the beginnings of the anti-Cartesian position he will pursue in On the Study Methods of Our Time ( 1709). Also found in the orations are glimpses ofVico's later views on the theory of interpretation and on the nature of language, imagination, and human creativity, along with many themes that were to be fully developed in his magnum opus, The New Science (1744). On Humanistic Education will be welcomed by Vichians and their students, intellectual historians, and others in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, history and methods of education, classics, and rhetoric. |
Contributor Bio(s): Verene, Donald Phillip: - Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University and a fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is the author of books including Vico's "New Science": A Philosophical Commentary; Vico's Science of Imagination; and The Art of Humane Education; and he is the coeditor of Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science", all from Cornell.Vico, Giambattista: - The late L. M. Palmer was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. |
