Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico (born Giovan Battista Vico ; ; 23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, finding Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism impractical to human life, and he was an apologist for classical antiquity and the Renaissance humanities, in addition to being the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics. He is recognised as one of the first Counter-Enlightenment figures in history.

The Latin aphorism ''Verum esse ipsum factum'' ("truth is itself something made") coined by Vico is an early instance of constructivist epistemology. He inaugurated the modern field of the philosophy of history, and, although the term ''philosophy of history'' is not in his writings, Vico spoke of a "history of philosophy narrated philosophically." Although he was not an historicist, contemporary interest in Vico usually has been motivated by historicists, such as Isaiah Berlin, a philosopher and historian of ideas, Edward Said, a literary critic, and Hayden White, a metahistorian.

Vico's intellectual ''magnum opus'' is the book ''Scienza Nuova'' or ''New Science'' (1725), which attempts a systematic organization of the humanities as a single science that recorded and explained the historical cycles by which societies rise and fall. Provided by Wikipedia
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La scienza nuova seconda : Giusta L'edizione del 1744
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Published 1953
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Autobiografía
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Published 1948
Book
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by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Published 1956
Book
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by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Published 1960
Book
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by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
Published 1941
Book
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L'autobiografia il carteggio e le poesie varie
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Published 1929
Book
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Il metodo degli studi del nostro tempo
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Published 1937
Book
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La scienza nuova
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Published 1946
Book
10
Autobiografia
Filosofía y Humanidades / Psicología
by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Published 1947
Book
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by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Published 1985
Book
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L'autobiografia
Biblioteca J. M. Aricó
by Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Published 1941
Book
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