Books by Joseph (Tel-Aviv University) Mali

Joseph Mali reveals how four major modern thinkers - the French historian Jules Michelet, the Irish writer James Joyce, the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin - were inspired by Vico's New Science (1744) to create their own modern theories and stories of human life and history.

In this important essay, Joseph Mali argues that Vico's New Science must be interpreted according to Vico's own clues and rules of interpretation, principally his claim that the 'master-key' of his New Science is the discovery of myth.