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Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.

New science : principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations / Giambattista Vico ; translated by David Marsh ; with an introduction by Anthony Grafton.

3rd ed.

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2001.

xxxv, 520 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

"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. 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 new translation makes it clear why this work marked a turning-point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton's contemporary revolution in physics."--Jacket.

Penguin classics

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.

Social sciences -- Early works to 1800.

Poetry -- Early works to 1800.

Principi di una scienza nuova. English

"Thoroughly corrected, revised and expanded by the author."

"Reprinted with corrections 2001"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Idea of the work -- Establishing principles -- Poetic wisdom -- Poetic metaphysics -- Poetic logic -- Poetic morality -- Poetic economics, or household management --Poetic politics -- Epitomes of poetic history -- Poetic physics -- Poetic cosmography -- Astronomy -- Poetic chronology -- Poetic geography -- Discovery of the true Homer -- The search for the true Homer -- Discovery of the true Homer -- The course of nations -- Three kinds of human nature -- Three kinds of customs -- Three kinds of natural law -- Three kinds of government -- Three kinds of language -- Three kinds of symbols -- Three kinds of jurisprudence -- Three kinds of authority -- Three kinds of reason -- Three kinds of judgments -- Three schools of thought -- Further proofs drawn from the properties of heroic aristocracies -- Further proofs drawn from mixed commonwealths which combine earlier governments with later states -- Final proofs confirming the course of nations -- The resurgence of nations and the recurrence of human institutions -- Conclusion of the work.

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