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Giambattista Vico : keys to the New science : translations, commentaries, and essays / edited by Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene.
LIBRA B3581.P73 G414 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cornell paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. Principi di una scienza nuova.
- Vico, Giambattista.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene have collected a series of texts that help us to understand the progress of Giambattista Vico's thinking, culminating in the definitive version of the New Science, which was published in 1744. In a unique and vital companion for anyone reading or rereading this landmark of Western intellectual history, Bayer and Verene provide useful introductions both to the collection as a whole and to the individual writings. What emerges is a clear picture of the decades-long process through which Vico elaborated his revolutionary theory of history and culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction : interpreting the New science
- Synopsis of universal law
- The true and the certain : from On the one principle and one end of universal law
- A new science is essayed : from On the constancy of the jurisprudent
- On Homer and his two poems : from the Dissertations
- Vico's address to his readers from a lost manuscript on jurisprudence
- Vico's reply to the false book notice : the Vici vindiciae
- Vico's "ignota latebat" : on the impresa and the dipintura
- Vico's addition to the tree of the poetic sciences and his use of the muses
- Vico's reprehension of the metaphysics of René Descartes, Benedict Spinoza, and John Locke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Translations, commentaries, and essays previously published in the annual New Vico studies, 1987-2006.
- "Vico's writings in English translation": pages 199-204.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. Works. Selections. English. 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780801447334
- 080144733X
- 9780801474729
- 0801474728
- OCLC:
- 228371621
- Publisher Number:
- 2840821
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