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"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…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 1968Cornell University Press · 488 pages · 9780801401299
- Other · English · 1999Penguin Books · 520 pages · 9780140435696
Early works to 1800PhilosophyPoetrySocial sciencesFiction, short stories (single author)CultuurgeschiedenisCultuurfilosofie