Professor Pompa's study of Vico has done a great deal to stimulate and inform the growing interest in the English-speaking world in this remarkable figure. It remains the only work devoted almost exclusively to an interpretation of the New Science and offers a comprehensive guide to the main theoretical problems to which the text gives rise. For this second edition Professor Pompa has responded to the reactions of reviewers and critics and added a new chapter which analyses Vico's conception of the principles which govern the development of law.
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Preface
1. The structure of the Scienza Nuova
2. Critique of current historiography
3. Human nature and social change
4. Human nature and historical change
5. Providence
6. The character of Vico's metaphysics
7. The problem of knowledge
8. The problem of methodology
9. The ideal eternal history: its theoretical character
10. The ideal eternal history: its deductive character
11. The ideal eternal history: its sociological content
12. The ideal eternal history: its historical content
13. Philosophy and historical interpretation
14. Philosophy and historical confirmation
15. Theory of knowledge
16. The character of Vico's theory of knowledge
17. Law, providence and the barbarism of reflection