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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140435697

ISBN-139780140435696

eBay Product ID (ePID)1648227

Product Key Features

Edition3

Book TitleNew Science

Number of Pages560 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicAncient / General, Short Stories (Single Author), Individual Philosophers, Sociology / General, General

IllustratorYes

GenrePhilosophy, Poetry, Social Science, Fiction, History

AuthorGiambattista Vico

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-265320

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

SynopsisBarely 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 NumberB3581.P72E5 1999