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Maurizio Esposito (University of Milan)

Vico and the Maker's Knowledge Tradition

Praxis and History

Maurizio Esposito (University of Milan)

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English
Cambridge University Press
17 July 2025
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900
Published in 1710, Giambattista Vico's groundbreaking On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians argued, against Descartes, that knowledge is more about making and producing than speculating and theorising. Historicised activities precede any kind of ethereal abstraction. Maurizio Esposito situates Vico's epistemology of praxis within the longstanding tradition of the maker's knowledge perspective and shows how Vico transformed the ancient idea that knowledge is a form of making into a humanist and existential principle. Humans do not merely fabricate tools and transform nature; they also create symbolic spaces in which different forms of thinking and understanding evolve. Esposito explores the possibility that Vico envisioned a non-Cartesian version of modernity, where praxis, rather than reason, drives human history. This alternative modernity has directly or indirectly influenced some of the most significant philosophical traditions of the past two centuries and is more relevant today than ever.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:   9781009436021
ISBN 10:   1009436023
Pages:   276
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction: the 'maker's knowledge tradition' through and beyond Vico; 1. Maker's knowledge traditions between ancients and moderns; 2. Vico and the making of 'Praxis epistemology'; 3. After and beyond Vico; 4. Praxis epistemology I: from Vico to Marxism; 5. Praxis epistemology II: from Vico to pragmatism; 6. Praxis epistemology III: from vico to phenomenology; Conclusion: Technē and Physis, again; Appendix: two challenges to the verum/factum principle; References; Index.

Maurizio Esposito teaches History of Science in the Department of Philosophy 'Piero Martinetti' at the University of Milan. He has published widely on the history and philosophy of natural and human sciences.

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