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 (poetic) 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 Ulysses. This powerful new translation makes it clear why it marked a turning point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton’s contemporary revolution in physics.
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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 (poetic) 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 Ulysses. This powerful new translation makes it clear why it marked a turning point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton’s contemporary revolution in physics.
Imprint | Penguin Classics |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | April 1999 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days |
First published | 2000 |
Authors | Giambattista Vico |
Introduction by | Anthony Grafton |
Translators | David Marsh |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 520 |
Edition | Reissued 3rd Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-043569-6 |
Barcode | 9780140435696 |
Languages | value |
Subtitles | value |
Categories | |
LSN | 0-14-043569-7 |