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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    27 June 2025
    17 July 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009436007
    9781009436021
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009436007
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.55kg, 276 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    History, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Published in 1710, Giambattista Vico's groundbreaking On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians argued, against Descartes, that knowledge is more about making and producing than speculating and theorising. Historicised activities precede any kind of ethereal abstraction. Maurizio Esposito situates Vico's epistemology of praxis within the longstanding tradition of the maker's knowledge perspective and shows how Vico transformed the ancient idea that knowledge is a form of making into a humanist and existential principle. Humans do not merely fabricate tools and transform nature; they also create symbolic spaces in which different forms of thinking and understanding evolve. Esposito 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 more relevant today than ever.

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    Contents
    • Introduction
      pp 1-24
    • The ‘Maker’s Knowledge Tradition’ through and beyond Vico
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