New Science : Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations
New Science : Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations
- ISBN 13:
9780140435696
- ISBN 10:
0140435697
- Edition: 3rd
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/01/2000
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary
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 powerful new translation makes it clear why this work marked a turning-point in humanist thinking as significance as Newton's contemporary revolution in physics.