New Science
New Science by Giambattista Vico, published by National Geographic Books in 2000, is a significant work that delves into the history, mythology, and laws of the ancient world. This 3rd edition, comprising 560 pages, presents Vico’s perspective that understanding the past requires recognizing the distinct customs and emotional lives of ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Jews, and Babylonians.
Readers will find that Vico’s exploration spans a wide array of topics, from physics to poetics, and examines the complexities of family structures and historical events like the Flood. By challenging the Renaissance view of classical ideals, Vico’s New Science marks a pivotal moment in humanist thought, influencing various fields such as philosophy and sociology. This edition invites readers to engage with Vico’s ambitious ideas and their lasting impact on thinkers like Karl Marx and literary figures such as James Joyce.
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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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