On Humanistic Education

Six Inaugural Orations, 1699–1707

Giambattista Vico, Giorgio A. Pinton, Arthur W. Shippee , Donald Phillip Verene

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Italian

Cornell University Press
24 June 1993

Literary essays; Philosophy; Philosophy & theory of education

"Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on humanistic education, offer the first statement of ideas that Vico would continue to refine throughout his life. Delivered between 1699 and 1707 to usher in the new academic year at the University of Naples, the orations are brought together here for the first time in English in an authoritative translation based on Gian Galeazzo Visconti's 1982 Latin/Italian edition.

In the lectures, Vico draws liberally on the classical philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship between the Greek dictum ""Know thyself"" and liberal education. As he sets forth the values and goals of a humanist curriculum, Vico reveals the beginnings of the anti-Cartesian position he will pursue in On the Study Methods of Our Time (1709). Also found in the orations are glimpses of Vico's later views on the theory of interpretation and on the nature of language, imagination, and human creativity, along with many themes that were to be fully developed in his magnum opus, the New Science (1744). On Humanistic Education joins a number of translations of Vico's works available in paperback from Cornell-On the Study Methods of Our Time, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, the New Science, and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. It will be welcomed by Vichians and their students, intellectual historians, and others in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, history and methods of education, classics, and rhetoric."

By: Giambattista Vico
Notes by: Gian Galeazzo Visconti
Introduction by: Donald Phillip Verene
Translated by: Giorgio A. Pinton, Arthur W. Shippee
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780801480874
ISBN 10: 0801480876
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 24 June 1993
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for On Humanistic Education: Six Inaugural Orations, 1699–1707

"""A significant contribution. One of the difficulties with the study of Vico's work is that it has tended to neglect the early phases of his intellectual development. On Humanistic Education will be essential for any student of Vico's thought.""-Donald R. Kelley, Rutgers University"