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Peer reviewedLittleford, Michael S. – Teachers College Record, 1983
Modern disillusionment with rationalistic and mechanistic creeds increases the relevance of the thought of Giambattista Vico, an eighteenth century thinker. Vico's "New Science" dealt with the origins of human consciousness and society, and with the development of human nature, knowledge, and institutions in ways that anticipate modern…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Philosophy, Eighteenth Century Literature, Epistemology
