Vico’s “Liber metaphysicus”: An Inquiry into its Literary Structure. With an Appendix: Notes on Vico’s “Inaugural Orations”, their proposed chiastic composition, and some hermeneutical implications
This essay examines Vico’s De Antiquissima (Liber metaphysicus) from a literary, that is, compositional, point of view. In this examination, the proposal is advanced that Vico’s first major work is written in the form of a ring, or chiasmus, rather than a thematically “linear” exposition. Based on t...
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Laboratorio dell'ISPF |
| Online Access: | http://www.ispf-lab.cnr.it/2014_301.pdf |