COMPLIT 221: Giambattista Vico (FRENCH 212, FRENCH 321, ITALIAN 221, ITALIAN 321)

Course Description

An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss, and Paul Feyerabend, whose ideas about myth and science converge in striking ways with Vico's.