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Article: Miner, Robert C. Vico: Genealogist of Modernity.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 2004
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MINER, Robert C. Vico: Genealogist of Modernity. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2002. xvi + 215 pp. Cloth, $37.50--The renaissance of Vico studies that has developed in the last three decades has focused on Vico's revival of the Italian humanist tradition, his conception of imagination (fantasia) as a form of knowledge, and his importance for what Isaiah Berlin calls the "critics of the Enlightenment" which include Herder and Hamann. Vico's attack on Descartes together with his anti-Enlightenment, cyclical conception of history has been the basis for the Vichian criticism of modernity. Vico's New Science with its emphasis on memory, myth, and metaphysics has ...
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