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Contents
Introduction
9
1. An Outline of
Scienza nuova
as Ring Composition
17
2. “Corso” and “Ricorso” of Nations/Cultures:
Segments
A
and
A’
25
3. Axioms, Principles, and Roman History:
Segments
B
and
B’
3.1 Relationship of segments
B
and
B’
3.2 Vico’s “axiomatic method”
35
35
40
4. The dialectic of Vichian “philosophy” and “philology”
67
5. The relationship between “philosophy”, “philology”,
and the actual world of humans
5.1 The ”mathematics of relationships”
5.2 The mediating role of “philology”
5.3 Trichotomy in
Scienza nuova
vs. trichotomy
in
De antiquissima
87
88
93
102
6. The Origins of Human Civilization: Segments
C
and
C’
6.1 Relationship of segments
C
and
C’
125
126
7. Language in Vico: “Tool” or “universal medium”?
143
8. Book III as the center of
Scienza nuova
’s concentric
structure
187
9. Spinoza’s biblical hermeneutics and epistemology
9.1 Spinoza’s philosophy of science
197
216
10. Vico’s interpretative framework of the Homeric works
10.1 Vico and the “Homeric question”
253
262
Conclusion
291
Appendix
Table of Contents of
Scienza nuova
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