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Giambattista Vico is now acknowledged to be one of the most
important figures in the history of European philosophy and social
thought and increasingly attention is being focused on his
writings. These, however have been difficult to obtain in English
and many have never been translated. A real need therefore exists
and to meet this Professor Pompa has here translated and introduced
a selection of the central, representative texts, where the most
important and seminal of Vico's ideas are developed. The volume
will make a major contribution towards the study of Vico's thought
and this period in the history of philosophy. It will be invaluable
to students of those subjects and of the social sciences generally.
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.
Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" brings together in
one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate
the background of Giambattista Vico's major work. Thora Ilin Bayer
and Donald Phillip Verene have collected a series of texts that
help us to understand the progress of Vico's thinking, culminating
in the definitive version of the New Science, which was published
in 1744.
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. Of
particular interest are the first sketch of the new science from
his earlier work, the Universal Law, and Vico's response to the
false book notice regarding the first version of his New
Science.
The volume also includes additions to the 1744 edition that Vico
had written out but that do not appear in the English translations
including his brief chapter on the "Reprehension of the Metaphysics
of Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke" and a bibliography of all of
Vico's writings that have appeared in English. Giambattista Vico:
Keys to the "New Science" is a unique and vital companion for
anyone reading or rereading this landmark of Western intellectual
history."
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Opere Di Giambattista Vico ...
Giuseppe Ferrari, Giambattista Vico, Francesco Saverio Pomodoro
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a
source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century
philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest
and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography.
Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course
of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the
development of concepts central to his mature work. Beyond its
relevance to the development of the New Science, the Autobiography
is also of interest for the light it sheds on Italian culture in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Still regarded by many as
the best English-language translation of this classic work, the
Cornell edition was widely lauded when first published in 1944.
Wrote the Saturday Review of Literature: "Here was something new in
the art of self-revelation. Vico wrote of his childhood, the
psychological influences to which he was subjected, the social
conditions under which he grew up and received an education and
evolved his own way of thinking. It was so outstanding a piece of
work that it was held up as a model, which it still is."
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was one of the most original and
idiosyncratic philosophers before Kant and Hegel. Although Giorgio
Vasari had already diagnosed a cycle of rise, blossoming and
decline in the history of art, Vico was the first to base this on a
philosophical system. Isolated in Naples from direct contact with
the philosophical life of his times, he worked at his grand design
of the cycles of rise, blossoming, decline and eternal return which
he saw in all areas of culture. His points of reference were
ancient mythology and Greek and Roman history. To that extent, he
is regarded today as the founder of the philosophy of history and
the precursor of a tradition which extends to Hegel and Oswald
Spengler's "Decline of the West."
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The New Science (Paperback)
Giambattista Vico; Translated by Jason Taylor, Robert C. Miner; Introduction by Giuseppe Mazzotta
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A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes
that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico's
masterpiece The New Science is the major work of Italian
philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised
in 1730 and 1744, it calls for a reinterpretation of human
civilization by tracing the stages of historical development shared
by all societies. Almost unknown during his lifetime, the work had
a profound influence on later thinkers, from Montesquieu and Marx
to Joyce and Gadamer. This edition offers a fresh translation and
detailed annotations which enable the reader to track Vico's
multiple allusions to other texts. The introduction situates the
work firmly within a contemporary context and newly establishes
Vico as a thinker of modernity.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Oeuvres Choisies De Vico, Contenant Ses M�moires, Volume 1;
Oeuvres Choisies De Vico, Contenant Ses M�moires; Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico, Jules Michelet L. Hachette, 1835
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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