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Reading List for the Vico Series

Added 2024-08-24 14:20:16 +0000 UTC

Here's a list of books referenced in my commentary on The New Science (other than Scienza Nuova itself, of course). I will add to this as we go through the work.

The Decline of the West- Oswald Spengler
A Study of History- Arnold Toynbee
The End of History and the Last Man- Francis Fukuyama
Thus Spake Zarathustra- Friedrich Nietzsche
Lectures on the Philosophy of History- GFW Hegel
Hegel & The Hermetic Tradition- Glenn Alexander Magee
The Whig Interpretation of History- Herbert Butterfield
The Idea of Decline in Western History- Arthur Herman
The Republic- Plato
The Open Society & Its Enemies- Karl Popper
The Poverty of Historicism- Popper
Theory & History- Ludwig Von Mises
Vico & Herder- Isaiah Berlin
To the Finland Station- Edmund Wilson
Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return- Mircea Eliade
Finnegans Wake- James Joyce
Closing Time- Norman O. Brown
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake- Joseph Campbell & Henry Morton Robinson
Tropics of Discourse- Hayden White
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge- Jean-Francois Lyotard
The New Science of Politics- Eric Voegelin
The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind- Julian Jaynes
The Master and His Emissary- Ian McGichrist
Capitalist Realism- Mark Fisher