Abstract
The article situates Vico's hermeneutical science of history between a hermeneutics of suspicion (Ricoeur, Habermas, Freud) and a redemptive hermeneutics (Gadamer, Benjamin). It discusses Vico's early writings and his ambivalent trajectory from Cartesian rationalism to counter-enlightenment historicist and critic of natural law reasoning. The complexity of Vico's thinking belies some of the popular treatments of his thought developed by Isaiah Berlin and others.
| Original language | American English |
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| Journal | Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2007 |
Keywords
- Vico
- philosophy of history
- hermeneutics
- critical theory
- Isaiah Berlin
- language
- myth
- reason
Disciplines
- Continental Philosophy
- Epistemology
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Science