DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Foundations of Modern Historical Thought

From Machiavelli to Vico

Paul Avis author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:7th Apr '16

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

Foundations of Modern Historical Thought cover

The emergence of a sense of the past in Renaissance humanism gave rise to a new historical consciousness about the meaning of history and methods of historical enquiry. This book, originally published in 1986, provides an in-depth critical introduction to the historical thought of some of the most influential thinkers of Western culture, from Machiavelli’s reflections on history and power to the revolutionary intuitions of Giambattista Vico’s New Science of historical understanding, taking in Bodin, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Leibniz and Bayle on the way.

ISBN: 9781138189607

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

188 pages