Barbara Naddeo's Vico and Naples provides an intellectual portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) that reveals the politics and motivations of one of Europe's first scientists of society, or philosophers of social justice. Rich with period detail and attentive to Vico's historical, rhetorical, and jurisprudential texts, this work provides a compelling and vivid reconstruction of Vico's life and times and of the origins of his powerful notion of the social.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that Vico was a solitary figure, Naddeo recovers a Vico who was keenly attuned to the social changes challenging the political culture and exclusions of his native city and shows that his experiences of civic crises shaped his inquiry into the development of human society and the rights of its members.

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