Giambattista Vico and Ideal Eternal History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Giambattista Vico and Ideal Eternal History

It is the 356th anniversary of the birth of Giambattista Vico (23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744), who was born in Naples, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, on this date in 1668. The Kingdom of Naples ruled most of the southern part of the Italian Peninsula for more than 500 years.

Vico produced a distinctive conception of history and its study in The New Science (Scienza nuova), which was largely neglected in his time, but was later rediscovered by Jules Michelet and thus reentered European intellectual life through the romantic movement. Isaiah Berlin called Vico a critic of the Enlightenment, and Mark Lilla calls Vico an anti-modern, both of which epithets point to Vico’s thought being out of step with contemporary presuppositions, but Vico, since his rediscovery, has been influential despite his contravening the dominant paradigm.

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