New Science
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.…
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Weitere Autoren: Grafton, Anthony (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-190769-7
- EAN: 9780141907697
- Produktnummer: 17831010
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 560 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 903 KB
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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.
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