New Science: Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations (Penguin Classics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

New Science: Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations (Penguin Classics) Book

Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.Read More

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    New Science : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140435696 : 0140435697 : 01 Jan 2000 : Giambattista Vico's "New Science"" is gradually being re-established as one of the most significant ""humanist"" achievements since the Renaissance. This book represents his attempt to provide a comprehensive science of human society by decoding the history, mythology and law of the ancient world."

  • Blackwell

    Although Vico (1668-1744) lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to decode the history, mythology and law of the ancient world. It argues that the key to true understanding lies...

  • 0140435697
  • 9780140435696
  • Giambattista Vico
  • 1 December 2005
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 560
  • 3rd Revised edition
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