Author: Giambattista Vico
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Political Philosophy of Giambattista Vico
Author: F. Vaughan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401027811
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
It would be an understatement to say that the New Science is difficult to read. Most contemporary readers conclude with a Russian scholar that Vico's thought "is expressed in extremely naive forms, profound thoughts are interspersed with all sorts of pedantic trifles, the exposition is very confusing, yet it is beyond doubt that the basic idea is a work of genius. " 1 There can be no disputing the fact that the New Science is difficult to read; the dispute emerges in the effort to explain how a work which is at once "confusing," "naive" and "pedantic," can be a "work of genius. " The purpose of this brief study is to suggest that a good deal of the confusion can be dispelled when the New Science is read with care and an eye to the possibility of two levels of meaning. We must never forget that Vico was a professor of rhetoric and was therefore familiar with the techniques of cautious writing. It is our conviction that the New Science is an exoteric book which means that it contains two levels of meaning: one which conveys a popular and orthodox message, and another which 2 conveys a philosophical message addressed to philosophers. A large number of contemporary scholars tend to minimize or dismiss this type of writing.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401027811
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
It would be an understatement to say that the New Science is difficult to read. Most contemporary readers conclude with a Russian scholar that Vico's thought "is expressed in extremely naive forms, profound thoughts are interspersed with all sorts of pedantic trifles, the exposition is very confusing, yet it is beyond doubt that the basic idea is a work of genius. " 1 There can be no disputing the fact that the New Science is difficult to read; the dispute emerges in the effort to explain how a work which is at once "confusing," "naive" and "pedantic," can be a "work of genius. " The purpose of this brief study is to suggest that a good deal of the confusion can be dispelled when the New Science is read with care and an eye to the possibility of two levels of meaning. We must never forget that Vico was a professor of rhetoric and was therefore familiar with the techniques of cautious writing. It is our conviction that the New Science is an exoteric book which means that it contains two levels of meaning: one which conveys a popular and orthodox message, and another which 2 conveys a philosophical message addressed to philosophers. A large number of contemporary scholars tend to minimize or dismiss this type of writing.
La scienza nuova
Author: Giambattista Vico
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Political Philosophy of Giambattista Vico
Author: F Vaughan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789401027823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789401027823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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La scienza nuova seconda
Author: Giambattista Vico
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 440
Book Description
La scienza nuova
Author: Giambattista Vico
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 140
Book Description
La scienza nuova
Author: Giambattista Vico
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 780
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 780
Book Description
The New Science of Giambattista Vico
Author: Giambattista Vico
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801401299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801401299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Giambattista Vico o la scienza nuova
Author: Antonio Pizzolorusso
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Languages : it
Pages : 75
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Languages : it
Pages : 75
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The New Science
Author: Giambattista Vico
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300249608
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico’s masterpiece The New Science is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised in 1730 and 1744, it calls for a reinterpretation of human civilization by tracing the stages of historical development shared by all societies. Almost unknown during his lifetime, the work had a profound influence on later thinkers, from Montesquieu and Marx to Joyce and Gadamer. This edition offers a fresh translation and detailed annotations which enable the reader to track Vico’s multiple allusions to other texts. The introduction situates the work firmly within a contemporary context and newly establishes Vico as a thinker of modernity.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300249608
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico’s masterpiece The New Science is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised in 1730 and 1744, it calls for a reinterpretation of human civilization by tracing the stages of historical development shared by all societies. Almost unknown during his lifetime, the work had a profound influence on later thinkers, from Montesquieu and Marx to Joyce and Gadamer. This edition offers a fresh translation and detailed annotations which enable the reader to track Vico’s multiple allusions to other texts. The introduction situates the work firmly within a contemporary context and newly establishes Vico as a thinker of modernity.
New Science
Author: Giambattista Vico
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190769X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
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 customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190769X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
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 customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.