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This book contains eight essays on Vico written by Pietro Piovani between 1968 and 1976. It is the only collection of writings on Vico designed by the author, for a publication in Spanish. Although the single essays had the widest circulation and impact since their writing, this is the first time that the collection as it was conceived by the author it is published in Italian.

G. Vico --- Historicism --- Italian philosophy

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italian philosophy --- biopolitics --- national philosophy --- political theology --- Philosophy --- Filosofía --- Philosophie --- Italia --- Italy

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Co-Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, 2018.The rediscovery of the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1774) - especially his New science - is a post-Revolutionary phenomenon. Stressing the elements that keep society together by promoting a sense of belonging, Vico's philosophy helped shape a new Italian identity and intellectual class. Poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) responded perceptively to the spreading and manipulation of Vico's ideas, but to what extent can he be considered Vico's heir?Through examining the reasons behind the success of the New science in early nineteenth-century Italy, Martina Piperno uncovers the cultural trends, debates, and obsessions fostered by Vico's work. She reconstructs the penetration of Vico-related discourses in circles and environments frequented by Leopardi, and establishes and analyses a latent Vico-Leopardi relationship. Her highly original reading sees Leopardi reacting to the tensions of his time, receiving Vico's message indirectly without a need to draw directly from the source. By exploring the oblique influence of Vico's thought on Leopardi, Martina Piperno highlights the unique character of Italian modernity and its tendency to renegotiate tradition and innovation, past and future.

Knowledge, Theory of. --- Imagination. --- Cycles. --- Vico, Giambattista, --- Leopardi, Giacomo, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Italy --- Intellectual life --- italian philosophy --- Giambattista Vico --- new science --- Giacomo Leopardi --- post-revolutionary italy