Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on
humanistic education, offer the 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 of Vico'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 joins a number of translations of Vico's
works available in paperback from Cornell On the Study Methods of
Our Time, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, the New
Science, and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. It 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."
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