New Science

Giambattista Vico, Anthony Grafton, David Marsh

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Italian

Penguin
01 December 2005

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; History of Western philosophy

Deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, New Science is a monument to an isolated but true genius.

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.

By: Giambattista Vico
Introduction by: Anthony Grafton
Translated by: David Marsh
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 383g
ISBN: 9780140435696
ISBN 10: 0140435697
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 01 December 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.