Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Translator’s Note xlvii
6. Part I. History and the Philosophy of History: Vico, Herder, and Hegel
7. 1 Vico’s Contribution to Literary Criticism 3
8. 2 Vico and Herder 11
9. 3 Giambattista Vico and the Idea of Philology 24
10. 4 Vico and Aesthetic Historism 36
11. 5 Vico and the National Spirit 46
12. 6 The Idea of the National Spirit as the Source of the Modern Humanities 56
13. Part II Time and Temporality in Literature
14. 7 Figura 65
15. 8 Typological Symbolism in Medieval Literature 114
16. 9 On the Anniversary Celebration of Dante 121
17. 10 Dante and Vergil 124
18. 11 The Discovery of Dante by Romanticism 134
19. 12 Romanticism and Realism 144
20. 13 Marcel Proust and the Novel of Lost Time 157
21. Part III Passionate Subjects, from the Bible to Secular Modernity
22. 14 Passio as Passion 165
23. 15 The Three Traits of Dante’s Poetry 188
24. 16 Montaigne the Writer 200
25. 17 On Pascal’s Political Theory 215
26. 18 Racine and the Passions 236
27. 19 On Rousseau’s Place in History 246
28. 20 The Philology of World Literature 253
29. Appendix: Sources for Translated Citations 267
30. Bibliographical Overview 271
31. Index 277