New Science (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Vico, Giambattista

 
9780140435696: New Science (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140435697 ISBN 13: 9780140435696
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1999

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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.

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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.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140435697
ISBN 13 
9780140435696
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
560
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