Announcements

Announcements One of the most appropriate and enduring monuments which the celebration in 1969 of Giambattista Vico's birth in 1669 has created is an impressive international symposium published by the Johns Hopkins Press (639 pp., $12). This symposium was organized by the editor, Professor Giorgio Tagliacuzzo, with the cooperation of Isaiah Berlin, Max H. Fisch, and Elio Gianturco. The co-editor, Hayden V. White, has provided a detailed, analytical Index, which adds greatly to the volume's utility as a reference work. Seldom has an occasion commanded the attention and celebration of so distinguished a company, representing so many fields of research and literature. The essays are grouped according to four major contributions of Vice to modern learning and humanities; this grouping also serves to indicate how Vico's influence, after three hundred years, has reached Spectacular scope and importance. I. The achievements of Vice as a historian are celebrated by: De Mas, Cambon, Caramella, Grassi, Cotroneo, Faucci, Belaval, Wells, Piovani, Sewel, and Kamenka. II. Vico's influence on modern thought and literature is described by: De Mas, Pens, Cefial) Kline, Vellek, Whalley, and Litz. III. Vice as a founder of the social sciences is the subject of essays by: Bidney, DeMauro, Stark, Leach, Hughes, Gianturco, and Tagliacozzo. IV. Vice as philosopher, critic, and educator is the subject of essays by: Berlin, White, Badaloni, Fisch, Corsano, Hedges, Rickman, Enzo Paci, Hampshire, Erie, Salomone, Franchini, Goretti, Dorties, and Read. A century ago Vice was celebrated primarily in Italy as a source of the Risorgimento and of Croce's philosophy of history and historicism. This symposium, however, reveals that the stature of Vice has grown amazingly during the last hundred years and is still spreading into a world-wide influence, creating a more critical interest in the social and historical sciences. The Symposium, therefore, is more than a celebration of a great mind; it is also a tribute to the heroic intellectual life of Naples in the seventeentli century. As one of the primary centers of religious illuminism and enlightenment , this community of pioneers of the later more wide-spread, secular Enlightenment emerges as a distinctive inspiration of a distinctive humanism. And out of this enlightened Neapolitan community, some of whom were martyrs, Vice has emerged as its most enduring, still inspiring, discoverer, inventor, and reformer. Additional evidence for this recent growth and re-interpretation of Vico's contributions to modern humanities can be found in a bibliography of writings related to Vice since 1948: Elio Gianturco, A Selective Bibliography of Vice Scholarship (1948-1968), Firenze, Grafica Toscana, 1968. (Available in the U.S.A. c/o Forum Italicum, State University of New York, Buffalo. $3.00) H. W. S. [467] 468 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Abraxas, a new journal for the theoretical study of philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences, begins publication in the fall of 1970. The journal will be characterized by its interdisciplinary approach. A braxas is multilingual, will be published quarterly, and will periodically devote entire issues to special problems. All contributions should be sent to the managing editor, Professor Jorge Garcfa-G6mez, Humanities Division, Southampton College, Southampton, New York 11968. Clark University Press is publishing a new international Journal of philosophy under the editorship of Robert N. Beck. Issued three times a year, Idealistic Studies is an organ of expression for studies of philosophical idealism. Historical and contemporary statements of idealism are encouraged, as are critical studies of idealistic theme. Articles relating idealism to other philosophic movements, including current analytic trends, are welcome. Review articles on books of special interest to the Journal's purpose are printed, together with sections covering notes and news and bibliographical surveys. Present membership of the Editorial Advisory Board includes: J. N. Findlay (Yale), Errol E. Harris (Northwestern), Klaus Hartmann (University of Bonn), H. D. Lewis (University of London), George A. Schrader, Jr. (Yale), W. H. Walsh (University of Edinburgh). All communications, including manuscripts and subscriptions, should be sent to the Editor, Department of Philosophy, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610. Beginning with the January, 1971 issue (Vol. 9:1) the journal will no longer be published by the University of California Press. Please address all business correspondence, subscription requests, orders for...