New science : principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations

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New science : principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations

Title remainder

principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations

Statement of responsibility

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

Creator

• Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744

Contributor

• Grafton, Anthony
• Marsh, David

Subject

• Civilization, Ancient
• History of Western philosophy -- Ancient World
• History of philosophy, philosophical traditions -- Ancient World
• Philosophy
• Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
• Social sciences -- Early works to 1800
• Poetry -- Early works to 1800

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

• eng
• ita
• eng

Summary

Giambattista Vico's "New Science" is gradually being re-established as one of the most significant "humanist" achievements since the Renaissance. This book represents his attempt to provide a comprehensive science of human society by decoding the history, mythology and law of the ancient world.

Member of

• Principi di una scienza nuova

Biographical or historical data

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.

Cataloging source

UK-WkNB

Dewey number

• 195
• 195

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Twelfth Grade and over

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake

Target audience

general