biography
pronunciation:
[veekoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1668–1744)
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| biography:
| Historical philosopher, born in Naples, SW Italy. He studied law, but devoted himself to literature, history, and philosophy, becoming in 1699 professor of rhetoric at Naples. In his Scienza nuova (1725, New Science), now recognized as a landmark in European intellectual history, he attempted to systematize the humanities into a single human science in a cyclical theory of the growth and decline of societies. Though his historicist philosophy of history was largely neglected in the 18th-c, it undoubtedly influenced many later scholars, including Goethe and Marx. |
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