G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern

By Mark Lilla

Book Overview

The Italian scholar Giovanni Battista Vico is viewed as the first modern philosopher of history, a judgement largely based on his obscure 1744 masterpiece, New Science. In this study Mark Lilla complicates this picture by presenting Vico as one of the most troubling of anti-modern thinkers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674339622
• ISBN13: 9780674339620
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"