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G. Mazzotta,
The New Map of the World,
cit., pp. 95-130, on Vico’s comments
on the chronological table in Book I, pp. 130-139, on Book II, pp. 140-161,
on “the Homeric question”, Book III, pp. 162-181, on Book IV, pp. 183-205,
on topics in Book II, pp. 206-233, on Book V; (2) V. Hösle,
Einleitung: Vico
und die Idee der Kulturwissenschaft. Genese, Themen und Wirkungsgeschichte der
«
Scienza
nuova
», in G. B. Vico,
Prinzipien einer neuen Wissenschaft über die gemeinsame Natur
der Völker
, trans. by V. Hösle and Ch. Jermann, Hamburg, Felix Meiner Ver-
lag, 1990, vol. 1, pp. XXXI-CCXCIII: broadly speaking, sections 2.4-2.8 on
Book I; 2.9-2.18 on Book II; 2.19 on Book III; 2.20 on Book IV; 2.21-2.22 on
Book V. Most recently, D. Ph. Verene produced a book-by-book discussion
in Id.,
Vico’s New Science: A Philosophical Commentary
, Ithaca-London, Cornell
University Press, 2015.
The consecutive Book discussion allows for consideration of the connec-
tion and relationship between successive Books, and thus helps to shed light
on Vico’s movement of thought that is usually not made explicit by him, as
well as providing opportunities of indirectly showing connections between
certain Books by cross-references.
The present book thus means to add another heuristic approach by find-
ing or bringing to the fore, correspondences and complementarities between
distantly located material in the work.