New Science by Giambattista Vico (2000, UK-B Format Paperback)

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9780140435696
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140435697
ISBN-13
9780140435696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1648227

Product Key Features

Edition
3
Book Title
New Science
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Ancient / General, Short Stories (Single Author), Individual Philosophers, Sociology / General, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Poetry, Social Science, Fiction, History
Author
Giambattista Vico
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-265320
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
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., 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 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 (poetic) 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 significance as Newton's contemporary revolution in physics.
LC Classification Number
B3581.P72E5 1999

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