Article
Vico’s New Science of Interpretation: Beyond Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Issues in Interpretation Theory
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Pages
199-223
Disciplines
Abstract
The article situates Vico's hermeneutical science of history between a hermeneutics of suspicion (Ricoeur, Habermas, Freud) and a redemptive hermeneutics (Gadamer, Benjamin). It discusses Vico's early writings and his ambivalent trajectory from Cartesian rationalism to counter-enlightenment historicist and critic of natural law reasoning. The complexity of Vico's thinking belies some of the popular treatments of his thought developed by Isaiah Berlin and others.
Identifier
0-87462-672-2
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© 2007 Marquette University Press
Citation Information
Ingram, D. "Vico’s New Science of Interpretation: Beyond Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion." Issues in Interpretation Theory, ed. Pol Vandevelde (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2007), 199-223.
“Vico’s New Science of Interpretation: Beyond Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion" by David ingram from Issues in Interpretation Theory. Pol Vandevelde, Editor. ISBN 978-0-87462-672-8. Copyright © 2007. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press. Reprinted with permission. www.marquette.edu/mupress