Vico’s Philosophical Legacy 300 Years After the Publication of the First Edition of the ‘New Science’. Vital Signposts for the Contemporary Reflection on Law and Justic

Giambattista Vico’s philosophy offers very interesting and stimulating arguments now that – in the ‘post-modern’ age – we can critically outline and experience the outcomes (and the failures) of modernity. Underrated, and probably also misunderstood, by many of his contemporaries – for his critical approach towards several aspects of the evolving modern thought at the beginning of Enlightenment – Vico (1668–1744) developed, through a ‘solitary’ although not isolated path, a diverse and original philosophy, deeply related with the humanistic tradition of classical thought. Such a view nowadays appears to be for many aspects alternative to the modern vision, and, for that reason, rich of interesting suggestions for the contemporary reflection, also in the field of legal philosophy.