The Rehabilitation of Myth
Subtitle: Vico's 'New Science'
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780521893275
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: In his well-known and influential essay, The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities, Isaiah Berlin argues that although there have always been disputes about method and distinctions with regard to these spheres of knowledge (Berlin effectively discards the common notion of 'two cultures'), it was only in the eighteenth century that there emerged a 'sense of contrast' between the two.