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Vico, Giambattista(born June 23, 1668, Naples—died Jan. 23, 1744, Naples) Italian philosopher of cultural history and law. In his major work, New Science (1725), he attempted to combine history and the more systematic social sciences into a single science of humanity. He described human societies as passing through stages of growth and decay. The first is a “bestial” condition, from which emerges “the age of the gods,” in which man is ruled by fear of the supernatural. “The age of heroes” is the consequence of alliances formed by family leaders to protect against internal dissent and external attack; in this stage, society is rigidly divided into patricians and plebeians. “The age of men” follows, as the result of class conflict in which the plebeians achieve equal rights, but this stage encounters the problems of corruption, dissolution, and a possible reversion to primitive barbarism. His work is recognized as a forerunner of cultural anthropology. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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WHEN GIAMBATTISTA VICO died in 1744, his funeral degenerated into a public controversy as the faculty of the University of Naples, where he taught, and members of the Confraternity of Santa Sofia, to which he had belonged, argued over which group should provide the pallbearers. Of all the methods that Said employs to transcend this mostly political and cultural structure of domination and coercion, no two interpretative strategies have been of more importance to his work than the work of Erich Auerbach and Giambattista Vico. Benedetti reconstructs the stages and the routes of the complex itinerary of the Tabula in Italian culture from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century: the textual and linguistic rediscovery, the first translations from Greek into Latin, the interpretation of the work by humanists, the poetic versions and prose vulgarizations in academic circles and in those of the courtiers, and the cultural and literary assimilation from the Cinquecento to the literary rendition of Giambattista Vico. |
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