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Vico’S New Science Of Interpretation: Beyond Philosophical Hermeneutics And The Hermeneutics Of Suspicion, David Ingram Oct 2013

Vico’S New Science Of Interpretation: Beyond Philosophical Hermeneutics And The Hermeneutics Of Suspicion, David Ingram

David Ingram

The article situates Vico's hermeneutical science of history between a hermeneutics of suspicion (Ricoeur, Habermas, Freud) and a redemptive hermeneutics (Gadamer, Benjamin). It discusses Vico's early writings and his ambivalent trajectory from Cartesian rationalism to counter-enlightenment historicist and critic of natural law reasoning. The complexity of Vico's thinking belies some of the popular treatments of his thought developed by Isaiah Berlin and others.


Immigration And Social Justice, David Ingram Dec 2001

Immigration And Social Justice, David Ingram

David Ingram

Examines cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to immigration policy against the backdrop of North/South economic disparities, the oil crisis of the 1970s; the growth of indebtedness in the developing world; and disparities in population growth between developed and undeveloped countries.