Quick Facts About Giambattista Vico
- Born
- June 23, 1668
- Died
- January 23, 1744
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Naples
- Profession
- Philosopher
- Notable works
- Principi di una scienza nuova
- Known for
- The New Science, De nostri temporis studiorum ratione, De antiquissima Italorum sapientia, De rebus gestis Antonii Caraphaei
- Spouse
- Teresa Caterina Destito
About Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, finding Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism impractical to human life, and he was an apologist for classical antiquity and the Renaissance humanities, in addition to being the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics. He is recognised as one of the first Counter-Enlightenment figures in history.
Biography source:
Wikipedia
