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The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History (Hardcover, New): Joseph Mali The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History (Hardcover, New)
Joseph Mali
R2,171 Discovery Miles 21 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History (Paperback): Joseph Mali The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History (Paperback)
Joseph Mali
R923 Discovery Miles 9 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Rehabilitation of Myth - Vico's 'New Science' (Paperback, Revised): Joseph Mali The Rehabilitation of Myth - Vico's 'New Science' (Paperback, Revised)
Joseph Mali
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this important essay, Joseph Mali argues that Vico’s New Science must be interpreted according to Vico’s own clues and rules of interpretation, principally his claim that the ‘master-key’ of his New Science is the discovery of myth. Following this lead Mali shows how Vico came to forge his new scientific theories about the mythopoeic constitution of consciousness, society, and history by reappraising, or ‘rehabilitating’ the ancient and primitive mythical traditions which still persist in modern times. He further relates Vico’s radical redefinition of these traditions as the ’true narrations’ of all religious, social, and political practices in the ‘civil world’ to his unique historical depiction of Western civilisation as evolving in a-rational and cyclical motions. On this account, Mali elaborates the wider, distinctly ‘revisionist’, implications of Vico’s New Science for the modern human sciences. He argues that inasmuch as the New Science exposed the linguistic and other cultural systems of the modern world as being essentially mythopoeic, it challenges not only the Christian and Enlightenment ideologies of progress in his time, but also the main cultural ideologies of our time.

Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment (Paperback, New): Isaiah Berlin Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment (Paperback, New)
Isaiah Berlin; Edited by Joseph Mali, Robert Wokler
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated the term, made it the heart of his own political thought, and imbued his interpretations of particular thinkers with its meanings and significance. His diverse treatment of writers at the margins of the Enlightenment, who themselves reflected upon what they took to be its central currents, were at once historical and philosophical. Berlin sought to show that our patterns of culture, manufactured by ourselves, must be explained differently from the ways in which we seek to fathom laws of nature. Many of the essays in this volume were prepared for the International Seminar in memory of Sir Isaiah Berlin, held at the School of History in Tel Aviv University during the academic year 1999-2000.

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