New science
Subtitle: principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations
By: Giambattista Vico ; translated by David Marsh ; with an introduction by Anthony Grafton.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.; Social sciences -- Early works to 1800.; Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Description: "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 new translation makes it clear why this work marked a turning-point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton's contemporary revolution in physics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Thoroughly corrected, revised and expanded by the author."