The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History, by Joseph Mali

The Legacy of Vico in
Modern Cultural History

Description (from Amazon.com):

"In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico's New Science (1744) - the French historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874), the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - came to find in Vico's work the inspiration for their own modern theories (or, in the case of Joyce, stories) of human life and history. Mali's reconstruction of the specific biographical and historical occasions in which these influential men of letters encountered Vico reveals how their initial impressions and interpretations of his theory of history were decisive both for their intellectual development and their major achievements in literature and thought. This new interpretation of the legacy of Vico's New Science is essential reading for all those engaged in the history of ideas and modern cultural history".

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Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, Volume 19, Number 1: Kant and the British Idealists

 

Introduction: Kant and the British Idealists
Baiasu, Sorin

Caird on Kant's Idealism: Traditionalist or Revolutionary?
Baiasu, Sorin

Kant, Bradley and The Conditionality of Human Knowledge
Herbert, Daniel

Baking with Kant and Bradley
Leech, Jessica; Thomas, E.

Kant and Collingwood on the Mind-Body Problem
Harrington, Katie

The Christologies of Kant and the British Idealists: Ethical and Ontological Theories of Kenosis
Norman, Ralph

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A Lover's Quarrel With the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading, by Ranjan Ghosh

A Lover's Quarrel With the Past

Description from Amazon: "Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today.Qualifying the non-historian; as anable interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and re-figurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive linguistic turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion, and the current state of global politics that underlines the manipulation and abuse of history".

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Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, Volume 17, Issue 4, 2013. Special Issue: Special Issue: Hayden White’s Metahistory: Forty Years On

Editorial
Alun Munslow

Metahistory: before and after
Peter Burke

Rethinking Hayden White's treatment of Croce
David D. Roberts

Hayden White as analytical philosopher of mind
Jonathan Gorman

Above, about and beyond the writing of history: a retrospective view of Hayden White's Metahistory on the 40th anniversary of its publication
Gabrielle M. Spiegel

Rereading narrative constructivism
Kalle Pihlainen

On intellecticide or university driven politics of history
Sande Cohen

Whistling history: Ankersmit's neo-Tractarian theory of historical representation
Paul A. Roth

Reply to professor Roth: on how antidogmatism bred dogmatism
Frank Ankersmit

    

Later in the next week, I'll write a two-part review of this edition.

Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ranjan Ghosh and Ethan Kleinberg

Presence: Philosophy, History,
and Cultural Theory for
the Twenty-First Century

Book description (from Amazon.com):

The philosophy of “presence” seeks to challenge current understandings of meaning and understanding. One can trace its origins back to Vico, Dilthey, and Heidegger, though its more immediate exponents include Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and such contemporary philosophers of history as Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia. The theoretical paradigm of presence conveys how the past is literally with us in the present in significant and material ways: Things we cannot touch nonetheless touch us. This makes presence a post-linguistic or post-discursive theory that challenges current understandings of “meaning” and “interpretation.” Presence provides an overview of the concept and surveys both its weaknesses and its possible uses.

In this book, Ethan Kleinberg and Ranjan Ghosh bring together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to explore the possibilities and limitations of presence from a variety of perspectives—history, sociology, literature, cultural theory, media studies, photography, memory, and political theory. The book features critical engagements with the presence paradigm within intellectual history, literary criticism, and the philosophy of history. In three original case studies, presence illuminates the relationships among photography, the past, memory, and the Other. What these diverse but overlapping essays have in common is a shared commitment to investigate the attempt to reconnect meaning with something “real” and to push the paradigm of presence beyond its current uses. The volume is thus an important intervention in the most fundamental debates within the humanities today.

Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales; Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley; Susan A. Crane, University of Arizona; Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal; Suman Gupta, Open University Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University; John Michael, University of Rochester; Vincent P. Pecora, University of Utah; Roger I. Simon.

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Intellectual History Review, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2013

Articles 

Regius and Gassendi on the Human Soul
Vlad Alexandrescu

An Eighteenth-Century Skeptical Attack on Rational Theology and Positive Religion: ‘Christianity Not Founded on Argument’ by Henry Dodwell the Younger
Diego Lucci

Shipwrecks and Survivals: Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Eduardo Posada-Carbó & Iván Jaksić

Heidegger, Von Humboldt and the Idea of the University
Mark Sinclair

‘A Flower Is Your Brother!’: Holism, Nature, and the (Non-ironic) Enchantment of Modernity
Frank Zelko

William of Ockham’s Mind/Body Dualism and Its transmission to Early Modern Thinkers
Charis Charalampous

The Sovereign Subject and Its Heterogeneous Other: Beauvoir’s Use and Critique of Bataille/Hegel
Henry Martyn Lloyd

Reviews 

From Oikonomia to Political Economy: Constructing Economic Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution
Felicity Green

The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism. Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570–1689)
Sarah Hutton

Decartes-agonistes: Physico-mathematics, method and corpuscular-mechanism, 1618-1633
John Henry

Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703), volume III (October 1668–1671)
Noel Malcolm

Mandeville and Hume: Anatomists of Civil Society
Iain McDaniel

Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel and Political Theory
Craig Smith

The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine
Neil Tarrant

Finding Oneself in the Other
Colin Kidd

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Bruno Latour: The Modes of Existence project