| Notes: | In this, the firsy full-length study of Vico's highly original autobiography, Professor erene discusses its place in the history of the genre. The author views the autobiography as a work in wich Vico applies the principles of human history discussed in his Nex Science, making the telling of his own life an application and verification of his philosophy. He places Vico's book within the general development of the genre, considering it in relation to Augustine's Cofnessions, Descartes's Discourse, and Rousseau's Confessions. The author shows Vico to be not only the founder of the philsophy of history, but also the originator of a philosophical art of self-narrative which is the response by a modern thinker to the ancient problem of self-knowledge. |
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
[Vico, Giambattista] 
Parabolic Events in Augustine's Autobiography