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New science : principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations / Giambattista Vico ; translated by David Marsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- Principi di una scienza nuova. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy--Early works to 1800.
- Philosophy.
- Social sciences--Early works to 1800.
- Social sciences.
- Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 520 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Penguin, 1999.
- Summary:
- Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the history, mythology, and law of the ancient world. It argues that the key to true understanding lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of the Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews, and Babylonians were utterly different from our own. In examining these huge themes, Vico offers countless fresh insights into topics ranging from physics to politics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, the New Science even inspired the framework for Joyce's Ulysses. This powerful new translation makes it clear why this work marked a turning-point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton's contemporary revolution in physics.
- ISBN:
- 0140435697
- OCLC:
- 41670598
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