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This creative text is the result of a scholarly struggle with the meaning over the context of a social theory of law. It examines the philosophical, sociological and jurisprudential aspects of Gambattista Vico's theory of law. It addresses his philosophical confrontation and engagement with important thinkers such as: Hobbes, Leibniz and Spinoza and the configuration of this thought with modern thinkers such as Gadamer and Deleuze.

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Author:   Paul A. Brienza
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773400504

ISBN 10:   0773400508
Pages:   365
Publication Date:   January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Giuseppe Mazzotta; Introduction; 1. Paradox and Origin: On the Structure of Legal; Communication; Paradox and Legal Theory; Nature / Culture and Legal Communication; The Mysterious Origins of Legal Authority; The Autonomy of Law and the Emergence of Legal Conceptuality; 2. History, Law and Hermeneutic Self-Reference; Introduction; The Framing of Vico's Interpretation in Nineteenth Century; Benedetto Croce and Vico; Gadamer, Vico, and the Decline of the Humanist Tradition; Historically Effected Consciousness and the Hermeneutic Re-collection of Sensus Communis; Humanism and the Interpretive Vehicle of Vico's Conatus; Conclusion: Hermeneutics and Vico's Texts; 3. Self-Mastery and the Conversion of Force: An Ethics of Freedom; Introduction; Words and Things: Philology Defined; Etymologies of Conatus; The Context of Conatus; Baroque En-folding: Leibniz and Conatus Accounting for Freedom:; Spinoza's Notion of Conatus; 4. The Social Metaphysics of Law: Vico's Communicative Body; and the Paradoxical Grounding of Freedom and Authority; On the Concept of the Baroque; Leibniz and Monadology; Motion and the Monad; The Vichian Concept of Conatus; The Engendering Power of Ingenium; 5. The Creative Formation and Foundation of Society's Law: On; the Nature of Poetic Wisdom; The Transition to Poetry as Source and Method; The Signigicance of Homer; Poetry in the New Science; Idea of the Locus, Wisdom, and Poetic Theology; The Cyclopean Age; Poetry, Knowledge, and the Myth of Jove; 6. Between Freedom and Authority: Vico's History of Roman Law; Introduction; The Significance of Roman Constitution History; AND MORE.

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"""Brienza's study... contributes a highly original and essential element to the two parallel debates on Vico and social theory...this thoughtful book can be characterized as the continuation of an ongoing, necessary conversation between Vico and Nietzsche."" (Dr. Giuseppe Mazzotta, Chair, Department of Italian, Yale University) ""Brienza's work offers a unique interpretive approach to a work from a different period of time and different context...As a result, he has done a great job of providing an appropriate level of historical context."" (Professor David Baker, Texas Southern University)"""

Brienza's study... contributes a highly original and essential element to the two parallel debates on Vico and social theory...this thoughtful book can be characterized as the continuation of an ongoing, necessary conversation between Vico and Nietzsche. (Dr. Giuseppe Mazzotta, Chair, Department of Italian, Yale University) Brienza's work offers a unique interpretive approach to a work from a different period of time and different context...As a result, he has done a great job of providing an appropriate level of historical context. (Professor David Baker, Texas Southern University)

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