Recent Works on Vico




The following is a list of the major works on Vico in English.  For a complete list see Vico: A Bibliography of Works in English from 1884 to 1994.  Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1994, and subsequent bibliography updates in New Vico Studies.

  • Leon Pompa.  Vico: A Study of the 'New Science.'  Cambridge University Press, 1975; rev. ed. 1990.
  • Isaiah Berlin. Vico and Herder. Two Studies in the History of Ideas. Viking, 1976.
  • Donald Phillip Verene. Vico's Science of the Imagination. Cornell University Press, 1981; reissued 1991.
  • Michael Mooney. Vico in the Tradition of Rhetoric. Princeton University Press, 1984.
  • Peter Burke.  Vico.  Oxford University Press, 1985.
  • Bruce A. Haddock. Vico's Political Thought. Mortlake Press, 1986.
  • John D. Schaeffer. Sensus Communis: Vico, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Relativism. Duke University Press, 1990.
  • Ernesto Grassi.  Vico and Humanism: Essays on Vico, Heidegger, and Rhetoric.  Lang, 1990.
  • Donald Phillip Verene. The New Art of Autobiography. An Essay on the 'Life of Giambattista Vico Written by Himself.' Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Joseph Mali. The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico's New Science. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • Marcel Danesi.  Vico, Metaphor and the Origin of Language.  Indiana University Press, 1993.
  • Mark Lilla. G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern. Harvard University Press, 1993.
  • Cecilia Miller. Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge. St. Martin's Press, 1993.
  • Giorgio Tagliacozza.  The Arbor scientia Reconceived and the History of Vico's Resurrection.  Humanities Press, 1993.
  • James Robert Goetsch, Jr. Vico's Axioms: The Geometry of the Human World. Yale University Press, 1995.
  • Donald Phillip Verene.  Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge.  Yale University Press, 1997.
  • Harold S. Stone.  Vico's Cultural History: The Production and Transmission of Ideas in Naples 1685-1750.  E. J. Brill, 1997.
  • Giuseppe Mazzotta. The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. Princeton University Press, 1999.