Giambattista Vico and Ideal Eternal History
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2024
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It is the 356th anniversary of the birth of Giambattista Vico (23 June 1668 - 23 January 1744), who was born in Naples, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, on this date in 1668. The Kingdom of Naples ruled most of the southern part of the Italian Peninsula for more than 500 years.
Vico produced a distinctive conception of history and its study in The New Science (Scienza nuova), which was largely neglected in his time, but was later rediscovered by Jules Michelet and thus reentered European intellectual life through the romantic movement. Isaiah Berlin called Vico a critic of the Enlightenment, and Mark Lilla calls Vico an anti-modern, both of which epithets point to Vico’s thought being out of step with contemporary presuppositions, but Vico, since his rediscovery, has been influential despite his contravening the dominant paradigm.
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Vico has discovered a logical paradox of the maker and his making.
Vico is at best a distant light pointing at the Seasons of History of Spengler.
Interesting
Although the more I think about logical development of thinking through history the more I come to a conclusion that all these intellectualisms had one goal: justification and rationalization of the desires of the elites. Kingdoms turned to nations, national Empires turned to transnational monopolies, industrial capital to financial. Cast societies to class societies and political sociology followed to smooth the differences for a new structure of the society. Now we look to theology to justify the rise of the transhumanism. In one word: useless, the goal to numb the brains and make people fight for the new idiotism, but with one goal: enrich the elites.
This is one of the fundamental ideas in Marx: the intellectual superstructure repeats what the economic base wants to hear.
@@geopolicraticus Marx is a father of the political economy, yes, but it's much more comprehensive in a book by Mikhael Khazin The Crisis of Capital Efficacy as well as in his theory of power: Stairway to Heaven. Marx summarized Hegel and Darwin. It is time to see his mistakes.
@@sophiashakti5638 Thanks for the references. Other related approaches include William MacNeill on macroparasites and the work on elite theory by Peter Turchin and Jack Goldstone. I have discussed elite theory in my newsletter 227 (mailchi.mp/f0ae1b4e03cf/the-view-from-oregon-227), and there is a review of one of Turchin’s books as a PS to newsletter 268 (mailchi.mp/d9e32a8a196f/the-view-from-oregon-268).
most students of History have no idea what they're talking about
@@Neapoleone-Buonaparte I’ve had other comments to that effect.
Vico's lack of actual historical knowledge always bothered me.