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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.
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
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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."
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