Aesthetics, sensitivity and prospective anthropology in Vico

Abstract

The drive to situate Vico in ongoing in contemporary aesthetics debates is due to the importance that he gives in his works to the concepts of natura and storia. Scienza Nuova cannot be read without reference to the very concept of anthropogenesis and its understanding humanity as in continuous formation. Anthropology in its prospective strand uses many fields of study to draw conclusions about future dimensions that humans face as a being that is constitutively in progress. Such future-driven self-making character is the one we are interested in dealing with, in order to analyse under what conditions is human action possible today. Such possibility can be inspired in the principle of verum factum convertuntur and the aesthetological modernity that Vico initiated.