Preface
1. The structure of the Scienza Nuova
2. Critique of current historiography
3. Human nature and social change
4. Human nature and historical change
5. Providence
6. The character of Vico's metaphysics
7. The problem of knowledge
8. The problem of methodology
9. The ideal eternal history: its theoretical character
10. The ideal eternal history: its deductive character
11. The ideal eternal history: its sociological content
12. The ideal eternal history: its historical content
13. Philosophy and historical interpretation
14. Philosophy and historical confirmation
15. Theory of knowledge
16. The character of Vico's theory of knowledge
17. Law, providence and the barbarism of reflection
18. Appendix. Humanist interpretations
Bibliography
Index.
