On Humanistic Education - Six Inaugural Orations, 1699–1707

Now retired, Giorgio A. Pinton taught at the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut, and Trinity College. Arthur W. Shippee is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Hartford. Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Giambattista Vico
• Assisted by: Giorgio A. Pinton (Translation), Arthur W. Shippee (Translation)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.1993
• EAN: 9780801480874
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8087-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 221 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 252 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries