Three Critics of the Enlightenment
Contributors: Henry Hardy (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780691057262
Subjects: History; Philosophers; Hamann, Johann Georg,; 18th century; Vico, Giambattista,; Biography & Autobiography; Philosophy; Irrationalism (Philosophy); Biography/Autobiography; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Herder, Johann Gottfried,; Biography: general; British Literature; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Religion; 1730-1788; 1668-1744
First sentence: VICO'S LIFE and fate provide perhaps the best of all known examples of what is too often dismissed as a romantic fiction - the story of a man of original genius, born before his time, forced to struggle in poverty and illness, misunderstood and largely neglected in his lifetime and (save among a handful of Neapolitan jurists) all but totally forgotten after his death.