Vico's Ring. Notes on the"Scienza nuova", its Structure, and the Hermeneutics of Homer's Works

• Main Author: Horst STEINKE (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Istituto per la storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico moderno - National Research Council 2016
• Series: I Quaderni del LAB
• Subjects: Philosophy; B. Spinoza; Ring composition; Category theory; Homer; G. Vico
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The present study of Giambattista Vico's defining work, La Scienza nuova (The New Science) is concerned with an approach to the work that pays requisite attention not only to the content but also to its form. To that end, Horst Steinke proposes that Scienza nuova possesses the structure of a ri...