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While the resonance of Giambattista Vico's hermeneutics for postcolonialism has long been recognised, a rupture has been perceived between his intercultural sensibility and the actual content of his philological investigations, which have often been criticised as being Eurocentric and philologically spurious. China is a case in point. In his magnum opus New Science, Vico portrays China as backward and philosophically primitive compared to Europe.In this first study dedicated to China in Vico's thought, Daniel Canaris shows that scholars have been beguiled by Vico's value judgements of China without considering the function of these value judgements in his theory of divine providence. This monograph illustrates that Vico's image of China is best appreciated within the contemporary theological controversies surrounding the Jesuit accommodation of Confucianism.Through close examination of Vico's sources and intellectual context, Canaris argues that by refusing to consider Confucius as a "filosofo", Vico dismantles the rationalist premises of the theological accommodation proposed by the Jesuits and proposes a new functionalist valorisation of non-Christian religion that anticipates post-colonial critiques of the Enlightenment.

Confucianism --- Christianity and other religions --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Confucianism. --- Vico, Giambattista, --- Knowledge and learning. --- Giambattista Vico --- Jesuit China mission --- Neapolitan enlightenment --- China in early modern Europe --- intercultural understanding

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A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since: bring them back together. Telling the story of modern Italian philosophy through the lens of Renaissance scholarship, he recovers a strand of philosophic history that sought to reactivate the humanist ideals of the Renaissance, even as philosophy elsewhere progressed toward decidedly antihumanist sentiments. Bookended by Giambattista Vico and Antonio Gramsci, this strand of Renaissance-influenced philosophy rose in reaction to the major revolutions of the time in Italy, such as national unity, fascism, and democracy. Exploring the ways its thinkers critically assimilated the thought of their northern counterparts, Rubini uncovers new possibilities in our intellectual history: that antihumanism could have been forestalled, and that our postmodern condition could have been entirely different. In doing so, he offers an important new way of thinking about the origins of modernity, one that renews a trust in human dignity and the Western legacy as a whole.

Philosophy, Italian --- Philosophy, Italian --- Humanism --- renaissance, italy, humanism, hegel, heidegger, philosophy, antonio gramsci, giambattista vico, democracy, fascism, national unity, nationalism, identity, vichianism, cartesianism, vincenzo cuoco, neo-guelphism, gioberti, giovanni gentile, positivism, guido calogero, ugo spirito, nicola abbagnano, enrico castelli, existentialism, ernesto grassi, tradition, platonism, paul oskar kristeller, ficino, history, nonfiction.

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Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein's influential analysis of the seventeenth century's "unprecedented fusion" of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.

Religion and science --- History. --- Catholic. --- Christian theology. --- Descartes. --- Enlightenment. --- Giambattista Vico. --- God's will. --- God. --- Henry More. --- Karl Marx. --- Leibniz. --- Malebranche. --- Middle Ages. --- Spinoza. --- absolute autonomy. --- actual beings. --- anti-religious. --- autonomy. --- divine knowledge. --- divine omnipotence. --- divine providence. --- doing. --- eternal truths. --- goodness. --- human history. --- human knowledge. --- invisible-hand. --- knower. --- knowing. --- knowledge. --- known. --- laymen. --- mankind. --- medieval philosophers. --- medieval theology. --- modern science. --- nature. --- philosophy. --- power. --- reason. --- savants. --- scientific revolution. --- scientific thinking. --- secular theologians. --- secularization. --- seventeenth-century thinkers. --- social nature. --- society. --- theology. --- truth.