New Science
Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the hitory, mythology, and law of the ancient world. "My imagination grows every time I read Vico as it...
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Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the hitory, mythology, and law of the ancient world. "My imagination grows every time I read Vico as it doesn't when I read Freud or Jung."—James Joyce.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140435696 (0140435697)
ASIN: 140435697
Publish date: January 1st 2000
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Science,
Religion,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Theory,
Italian Literature
It is only going to work if you make the imaginative effort to see that this book was written by a professional academic in Naples in 1744 and its author had no immediate plans to get sacked or imprisoned. I personally sense that the accommodations required to remain safe within orthodox Catholic te...
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