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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Giambattista Vico's "New Science" is gradually being re-established as one of the most significant "humanist" achievements since the Renaissance. This book represents his attempt to provide a comprehensive science of human society by decoding the history, mythology and law of the ancient world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translated by David Marsh with an Introduction by Anthony Grafton Introduction by Anthony Grafton Translator's Preface Idea of the Work Explanation of the Frontispiece Book 1: Establishing Principles Chronological Table Section 1. Notes on the Chronological Table Section 2. Elements Section 3. Principles Section 4. Method Book 2: Poetic Wisdom Prolegomena Introduction Chapter 1. Wisdom in General Chapter 2. Introduction to Poetic Wisdom and its Divisions Chapter 3. The Universal Flood and the Giants Section 1. Poetic Metaphysics Chapter 1. Poetic Metaphysics as the Origin of Poetry, Idolatry, Divination, and Sacrifices Chapter 2. Corollaries on the Principal Aspects of the New Science Section 2. Poetic Logic Chapter 1. Poetic Logic Chapter 2. Corollaries on Poetic Figures of Speech, Monsters, and Metamorphoses Chapter 3. Corollaries on the Speech in Poetic Archetypes of the First Nations Chapter 4. Corollaries on the Origins of Languages and Letters; Including the Origins of Hieroglyphics, Laws, Names, Family Arms, Medals, and Money; and the Origins of the First Language and Literature of the Natural Law of Nations Chapter 5. Corollaries on the Origins of Poetic Style, Digressions, Inversions, Prose Rhythm, Song, and Verse Chapter 6. Further Corollaries Chapter 7. Final Corollaries on Logic in Educated People Section 3. Poetic Morality Chapter 1. Poetic Morality and the Origins of the Common Virtues Taught by Religion through the Institution of Matrimony Section 4. Poetic Economics, or Household Management Chapter 1. Household Management in Nuclear Families Chapter 2. Extended Families of Family Servants as Essential to the Founding of Cities Chapter 3. Corollaries on Contracts Sealed by Simple Consent Chapter 4. A Principle of Mythology Section 5. Poetic Politics Chapter 1. Poetic Politics: The Severely Aristocratic Form of the First Commonwealths Chapter 2. All Commonwealths Arise from Invariable Principles of Fiefs Chapter 3. Origins of the Census and Public Treasury Chapter 4. The Origins of Roman Assemblies Chapter 5. Corollary: Divine Providence Ordains both Commonwealths and the Natural Law of Nations Chapter 6. Heroic Politics Continued Chapter 7. Corollaries on Roman Antiquities, Particularly the Imaginary Monarchy at Rome and the Imaginary Popular Liberty Establis...
