The philosophy of the imagination in Vico and Malebranche

• Informazioni

  DESCRIZIONE

  415 p.

  COLLANA

  Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca ; 86
  

  MATERIE

  • Filosofia moderna. Francia
  • Filosofia moderna. Italia
  • Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

  NOTE

  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Giambattista Vico (1668-1744); Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715).
  • First publ. 2002 in Italian with the title: La filosofia dell'immaginazione in Vico e Malebranche.
• In questo volume

  • Translator's Preface
  • Introduction
  • Glossary
  • Proemium
  • The Rules for the Avoidance of Errors
  • The Third Primitive Notion and the Human Fall
  • The Human Fall and the Pagan Mentality
  • Aristotelianism
  • The Scientific Foundations of Vico's Psychology
  • The Most Dangerous Error of the Ancients
  • The Birth of Thought
  • The Metaphorical Nature of Thought
  • The Intelligible Extension
  • The Origin of Idolatry
  • Psychology and Psycho-Linguistics of Paganity
  • Sensitivity and Intellect
  • The Familiar Ideas and Mentality
  • Verisimilarity and Imagination
  • The Function of Imagination and Imitation in Society
  • The Organicistic Conception of Society
  • The Nature of Social Interrelations
  • The Communicative Power of the Strong Images
  • The Heroic Mentality
  • The Heroes of the Imagination
  • The Power of Imagination and of Superstition
  • The Conceit of the Learned and the Problem of Knowledge
  • Passions and Imagination
  • The Universals of the Imagination
  • Notes
  • Bibliography