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philosopher who had some better cultural awareness than
those moved by the “Cartesian spring.” And Vico, like
Heidegger, is a philologist among philosophers. His time theory
of Òricorsi ” has been interpreted by lineal minds to imply
“recurrence.” A recent study of him brushes this notion
aside. (107)

     Vico conceives the time-structure of history as “not
linear, but contrapuntal. It must be traced along a number of
lines of development . . .” For Vico all history is contemporary or
simultaneous, a fact given, Joyce would add, by virtue of
language itself, the simultaneous storehouse of all experience.
And in Vico, the concept of recurrence cannot “be admitted at
the level of the course of the nations through time”: “The
establishment of providence establishes universal history, the
total presence of the human spirit to itself in idea. In this