New Science
Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations
$41.14
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2005
Summary
Deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, New Science is a monument to an isolated but true genius.
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 cus…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435696 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140435697 |
| Author: | Giambattista Vico, Anthony Grafton, David Marsh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 383g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
Giambattista Vico
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.
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