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Description of the Book: New Science (Penguin Classics)
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A bold new translation of a masterpiece of early social science that has found enthusiasts among such artists and scholars as James Joyce and Harold Bloom.
Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the history, mythology, and law of the ancient world. It argues that the key to true understanding lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of the Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews, and Babylonians were utterly different from our own. In examining these huge themes, Vico offers countless fresh insights into topics ranging from physics to politics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, the New Science even inspired the framework for Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This powerful new translation makes it clear why this work marked a turning-point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton's contemporary revolution in physics.
Translated by David Marsh with an Introduction by Anthony Grafton
"My imagination grows every time I read Vico as it doesn't when I read Freud or Jung."-- James Joyce
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Details of the Book: New Science (Penguin Classics)Author: Giambattista Vico Number Of Pages: 560 Binding: Paperback ISBN-10: 082322791X ISBN-13: 9780140435696 Language: English Amazon Sales Rank: 149159 Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: Penguin Classics Package Dimensions: 1.02 x 7.72 x 4.88 inches |
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