"Explores the possibility that Vico envisioned a non-Cartesian version of modernity, where praxis, rather than reason, drives human history. This alternative modernity has directly or indirectly influenced some of the most significant philosophical traditions of the past two centuries and is still relevant today"-- Provided by publisher.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: the 'maker's knowledge tradition' through and beyond Vico; 1. Maker's knowledge traditions between ancients and moderns; 2. Vico and the making of 'Praxis epistemology'; 3. After and beyond Vico; 4. Praxis epistemology I: from Vico to Marxism; 5. Praxis epistemology II: from Vico to pragmatism; 6. Praxis epistemology III: from vico to phenomenology; Conclusion: Techn and Physis, again; Appendix: two challenges to the verum/factum principle; References; Index.