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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.
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."
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.
A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was
first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today
to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of
social theory. It represents the most ambitious attempt before
Comte at comprehensive science of human society and the most
profound analysis of the class struggle prior to Marx.
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."
Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on
humanistic education, offer the first statement of ideas that Vico
would continue to refine throughout his life. Delivered between
1699 and 1707 to usher in the new academic year at the University
of Naples, the orations are brought together here for the first
time in English in an authoritative translation based on Gian
Galeazzo Visconti's 1982 Latin/Italian edition.
In the lectures, Vico draws liberally on the classical
philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship
between the Greek dictum "Know thyself" and liberal education. As
he sets forth the values and goals of a humanist curriculum, Vico
reveals the beginnings of the anti-Cartesian position he will
pursue in On the Study Methods of Our Time (1709). Also found in
the orations are glimpses of Vico's later views on the theory of
interpretation and on the nature of language, imagination, and
human creativity, along with many themes that were to be fully
developed in his magnum opus, the New Science (1744).
On Humanistic Education joins a number of translations of Vico's
works available in paperback from Cornell On the Study Methods of
Our Time, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, the New
Science, and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. It will be
welcomed by Vichians and their students, intellectual historians,
and others in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, history
and methods of education, classics, and rhetoric."
On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, originally published
in 1710, is widely regarded as Vico's most significant work after
the New Science and the Autobiography. Subtitled "The Book of
Metaphysics," it was one of three planned volumes of a larger work
that was never published, and it marks Vico's transition from
rhetorician to philosopher of historical knowledge.
This edition incorporates translations from the Italian of a
contemporary review and Vico's responses, published in 1711 and
1712. L. M. Palmer's translation helps make more accessible a
treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's
epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.
On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, originally published
in 1710, is widely regarded as Vico's most significant work after
the New Science and the Autobiography. Subtitled "The Book of
Metaphysics," it was one of three planned volumes of a larger work
that was never published, and it marks Vico's transition from
rhetorician to philosopher of historical knowledge.
This edition incorporates translations from the Italian of a
contemporary review and Vico's responses, published in 1711 and
1712. L. M. Palmer's translation helps make more accessible a
treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's
epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.
Giambattista Vico's first original work of philosophy, On the
Study Methods of Our Time (1708 9) takes up the contemporary
"quarrel between the ancients and the moderns" and provides a
highly interesting statement of the nature of humanistic education.
This edition makes available again Elio Gianturco's superb 1965
English translation of a work generally regarded as the earliest
statement by Vico of the fundamentals of his position.
An important contribution to the development of the
scientism-versus-humanism debate over the comparative merits of
classical and modern culture, this book lays out Vico's powerful
arguments against the compartmentalization of knowledge which
results from the Cartesian world view. In opposition to the arid
logic of Cartesianism, Vico here celebrates the humanistic
tradition and posits the need for a comprehensive science of
humanity which recognizes the value of memory and imagination.
For this edition, Donald Phillip Verene has written a new
preface placing the work in the context of the ongoing renaissance
in Vico studies and added a chronology of Vico's major writings. He
has also translated into English for the first time Vico's last
public statement, The Academies and the Relation between Philosophy
and Eloquence (1737), a short oration that presents his final views
on wisdom, the unity of knowledge, and rhetoric themes he had first
adumbrated in the Study Methods.
On the Study Methods of Our Time remains a key text for anyone
interested in the development's of Vico's thought and serves as a
concise introduction to his work. Scholars and students in such
disciplines as the history of philosophy, intellectual history,
literary theory, rhetoric, and the history and philosophy of
education will find this volume helpful and fascinating."
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