Description:
Contributors reassess the role of public intellectuals in a variety of countries and regions, their differences across different academic disciplines, and their duties in twenty-first century society.
Brief description:
Vittorio Hösle is Paul G. Kimball Chair of Arts and Letters in the Department of German Languages and Literatures and concurrent professor of philosophy and political science at the University of Notre Dame. He was the founding director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics (2012) and Morals and Politics (2004), both published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
Review Quotes:
"This volume makes available in translation a revised version of Professor Hösle's introduction to the German edition of Vico's masterpiece. Readers will find here a guide both historical and critical to Vico's central ideas as well as an original approach to the problem of intersubjectivity. It is a most welcome and learned contribution to Vico interpretation." --Donald Phillip Verene, director, Institute for Vico Studies, Emory University