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134
261
V. Hösle,
The Historical Evolution of Aesthetic Theories
, in
The Many Faces of
Beauty
, ed. by V. Hösle, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013,
pp. 277-301, p. 287.
262
Hösle summarized the state of matters as follows: «Vicos Ästhetik ist
im wesentlichen Poetik. Freilich finden sich einige Gedanken zu den bilden-
den Künsten […] (Vico’s aesthetics is essentially poetics. To be sure, there are
some thoughts about the plastic arts […])» (Id.,
Einleitung
,
cit., p.
CLXXXVIII).
263
It is therefore not entirely surprising that Vico’s basic ideas have been
taken in the philosophy of art to the next level by Vico students, as in G. Ta-
gliacozzo - M. Frankel,
Progress in Art? A Vichian Answer,
in
Vico: Past and Pre-
sent
, cit., vol. II, pp. 239-251, pp. 249-251; M. Piccolomini,
Vico, Sorel, and
Modern Artistic Primitivism
, in «NVS», 4, 1986, pp. 123-130.
264
See e.g. V. Hösle,
Einleitung
,
cit., p. CLX: «Die Methode des Vergleichs
hat Vico auf alle Sphären menschlicher Kultur angewandt – Religionen,
Rechtssysteme, Sprachen, Symbole, Sitten (Vico applied the comparative
method to all spheres of human culture – religions, systems of law, languages,
symbols, customs)»; M. A. Pastor Pérez,
Vico o la metafísica como método de fun-
damentación de la naturaleza humana
, in «CsV», 2, 1992, pp. 193-206, p. 198:
«Principios epistemológicos y prácticos, operantes y operativos, que producen
economía, derecho, política, arte, ciencia, filosofía […] (Epistemological and
practical principles, both operating and operative, which generate the econo-
my, law, political order, art, science, philosophy […])».
265
The full title is «Of Poetic Economy, and Here of the Families Which
at First Included Only Children [and
Not Famuli
]»; in the original:
«DELL’ICONOMICA POETICA, E quì delle Famiglie, che prima furono de’
Figliuoli». See G. Vico,
La Scienza nuova. Le tre edizioni,
cit., p. 995. In the
Bergin/Fisch translation, Section IV comprises §§ 520-581.
266
Ibidem.
267
Ibid.
, p. 997.
268
Ibidem.
269
The Marsh translation avoids “economic” language in these paragraphs
altogether, using the terms «household management» and «household teach-
ing» instead.
270
Hösle explained: «Unter “Ökonomie” ist die Lehre von der Ordnung
der Familie verstanden als der Institution, die zwischen dem einzelnen und
dem Staat vermittelt – “(politische) Ökonomie” im Sinne von Wirtschaftswis-
senschaft wird erst im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts gebräuchlich (Under
“economy” is understood the doctrine on the family arrangement as the insti-
tution that mediates between the individual and the state – [the term] “(politi-