Vico’s Concept of Knowledge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Author's Note xxi
5. Editor's Preface xxiii
6. Note on References xxix
7. Introduction xxxi
8. The Counter-Enlightenment 1
9. The Originality of Machiavelli 33
10. The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities 101
11. Vico’s Concept of Knowledge 140
12. Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment 151
13. Montesquieu 164
14. Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism 204
15. Herzen and His Memoirs 236
16. The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess 267
17. Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity 317
18. The ‘Naivety’ of Verdi 361
19. Georges Sorel 373
20. Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power 420
21. Appendix to the Second Edition 449
22. Index 467