Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History

In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico''s New Science (1744) - the French historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), the Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941), the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909–97) - came to find in Vico''s work the inspiration for their own mode...