2009 - Firenze University Press
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The philosophy of the imagination in Vico and Malebranche
415 p.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Giambattista Vico (1668-1744); Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715).
- First publ. 2002 in Italian with the title: La filosofia dell'immaginazione in Vico e Malebranche.
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In this volume
- Translator's Preface
- Introduction
- Glossary
- Proemium
- The Rules for the Avoidance of Errors
- The Third Primitive Notion and the Human Fall
- The Human Fall and the Pagan Mentality
- Aristotelianism
- The Scientific Foundations of Vico's Psychology
- The Most Dangerous Error of the Ancients
- The Birth of Thought
- The Metaphorical Nature of Thought
- The Intelligible Extension
- The Origin of Idolatry
- Psychology and Psycho-Linguistics of Paganity
- Sensitivity and Intellect
- The Familiar Ideas and Mentality
- Verisimilarity and Imagination
- The Function of Imagination and Imitation in Society
- The Organicistic Conception of Society
- The Nature of Social Interrelations
- The Communicative Power of the Strong Images
- The Heroic Mentality
- The Heroes of the Imagination
- The Power of Imagination and of Superstition
- The Conceit of the Learned and the Problem of Knowledge
- Passions and Imagination
- The Universals of the Imagination
- Notes
- Bibliography
