Vaglio, Mirella
Truth and Authority in Vico's Universal Law

This study places Vico's 'Diritto Universale' within the wider traditions of Roman legal scholarship and natural law, which Vico was confronting, including Aristotelian influences. It examines Vico's idea that a theory founded on the subjective right of the single individual cannot be the foundation of social relationships. This entails the investigation of Vico's refusal to endorse rationality as the basis of authority and political agreement conceived as «contract». It traces a continuity between the Diritto Universale and Vico's major work, the Scienza Nuova. 240 Seiten, gebunden (Emory Vico Studies; vol. 7/Peter Lang Verlag 1999) Mängelexemplar/near mint