The new map of the world
Subtitle: the poetic philosophy of Giambattista Vico
By: Giuseppe Mazzotta.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Description: For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here Giuseppe Mazzotta, one of the leading Italianists in the United States, shows how much Vico, properly read, can bring to an understanding of contemporary social problems.

To explore Vico's body of thought in all its monumental complexity, Mazzotta highlights the place of poetry, or "writerliness," in Vico's educational project, which links literature, history, religion, philosophy, and politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-260) and index.