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Is there a pattern in history? How and why does social change occur? Are we to distinguish between the methods to be employed in the study of man and the study of nature? How does linguistic, or 'philological,' knowledge contribute to unearthing historical facts? These are the queries that Vico grappled with throughout his life. Vico, however, was an outsider to the intellectual atmosphere of his own day, dismissed as obscure, speculative, and unsound. Only after his death did he begin to inspire enthusiasm among diverse readers, and as long as we remain concerned with the queries mentioned above, Vico's reflections will come alive with contemporary relevance. Actually he has been regarded as the founder--unrecognized by his contemporaries--of the philosophy of history and as a thinker whose ideas anticipated such later intellectual movements as historicism, pragmatism, existentialism, and structuralism. There are many among modern minds who find Vico fascinating for his view of myth as concrete thought and of an age of myth as a necessary age in the intellectual evolution of the human race. James Joyce, for one, was deeply impressed by Vico's view on myth, on metaphor, on Homer, on language, on psychology, and much else besides. "My imagination grows when I read Vico," he once confessed, "as it doesn't when I read Freud or Jung." Some philosophers, critics, psychologists, social scientists and even geographers would describe themselves as 'Vichians,' sharing the view that Vico was a poet and a lawyer, a platonist and a baconian rolled into one. His refusal to be confined within any one discipline, his imaginative effort to understand different cultures, and his insight in dealing with some fundamental problems in the study of humanity all compel admiration and deserve to be emulated in our age--an age when the split between the literary and the scientific approaches to the understanding of society is widening into a chasm. Vico has left some of his most important ideas underdeveloped or even undeveloped, to be excavated and polished by us after our own fashion. It is surprising that Vico is still a man of obscure name in the academia of our country, Korea.

목차

1. “진리란 곧 만든 것”: 역사학의 새로운 정의
 2. 세 가지 시대, 세 가지 언어
 3. 역사로서의 신화
 4. 주기의 순환에 의한 인류역사: corso와 ricorso
 5. 정신적 언어, 공통감각
 6. 맺는 말
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• 문경환 [ Kyung Hwan Moon | 연세대학교(Yonsei University) ]

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• 간행물명

  인문언어 [LINGUA HUMANITATIS]

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  1598-2130

• 수록기간

  2000~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 705 DDC 405