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New Science (Paperback, Reissued 3rd Ed)

Giambattista Vico; Introduction by Anthony Grafton; Translated by David Marsh

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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 it marked a turning point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton’s contemporary revolution in physics.

General

Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 1999
First published: 2000
Authors: Giambattista Vico
Introduction by: Anthony Grafton
Translators: David Marsh
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 520
Edition: Reissued 3rd Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043569-6
Languages: English
Subtitles: Italian
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN: 0-14-043569-7
Barcode: 9780140435696

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