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Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations
By
Giambattista Vico, Anthony Grafton (Introduction by), David Marsh (Translated by)
$19.49
Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from USA supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 560 pages | | Other Information: | Illustrations | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 29 April 1999 |
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. |
About the AuthorAlthough 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.
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics | | ISBN: | 0140435697 |
| EAN: | 9780140435696 | | Dimensions: | 19.0 x 12.0 x 2.0 centimeters (0.38 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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