In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four
attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico's New Science
(1744) the French historian Jules Michelet (1798 1874), the Irish
writer James Joyce (1882 1941), the German literary scholar Erich
Auerbach (1892 1957) and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin
(1909 1997) came to find in Vico's work the inspiration for their
own modern theories (or, in the case of Joyce, stories) of human
life and history. Mali's reconstruction of the specific
biographical and historical occasions in which these influential
men of letters encountered Vico reveals how their initial
impressions and interpretations of his theory of history were
decisive both for their intellectual development and their major
achievements in literature and thought. This new interpretation of
the legacy of Vico's New Science is essential reading for all those
engaged in the history of ideas and modern cultural history.
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