New Science

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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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Overview

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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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140435696
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/28/2000
  • Series: Penguin Classics Series
  • Edition description: 3RD
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 560
  • Sales rank: 626,282
  • Product dimensions: 5.14 (w) x 7.78 (h) x 0.99 (d)

Meet the Author

Anthony Grafton teaches European intellectual history at Princeton University.

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Table of Contents

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 Established by Junius Brutus Chapter 8. Corollary on the Heroism of the First Peoples

Section 6. Epitomes of Poetic History
Chapter 1. Epitomes of Poetic History

Section 7. Poetic Physics
Chapter 1. Poetic Physics Chapter 2. Poetic Physics of the Human Body: Heroic Nature Chapter 3. Corollary on Heroic Statements Chapter 4. Corollary on Heroic Descriptions Chapter 5. Corollary on Heroic Customs

Section 8. Poetic Cosmography
Chapter 1. Poetic Cosmography

Section 9. Poetic Astronomy
Chapter 1. Poetic Astronomy Chapter 2. Astronomical, Physical, and Historical Proof that All Ancient Pagan Nations Shared Uniform Astronomical Principles

Section 10. Poetic Chronology
Chapter 1. Poetic Chronology Chapter 2. Canon of Chronology for Determining the Origins of Universal History, Which Much Antedate the Monarchy of Ninus, its Traditional Starting Point

Section 11. Poetic Geography
Chapter 1. Poetic Geography Chapter 2. Corollary on Aeneas' Arrival in Italy Chapter 3. Names and Descriptions of Heroic Cities Conclusion

Book 3: Discovery of the True Homer

Section 1. The Search for the True Homer
Introduction Chapter 1. The Esoteric Wisdom Attributed to Homer Chapter 2. Homer's Native Land Chapter 3. Homer's Age Chapter 4. Homer's Incomparable Gift for Heroic Poetry Chapter 5. Philosophical Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer Chapter 6. Philological Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer

Section 2. Discovery of the True Homer
Introduction Chapter 1. Inconsistencies and Improbabilities in the Traditional Homer Become Consistent and Necessary in the Homer Discovered Here Chapter 2. Homer's Epics: Two Great Repositories of the Natural Law of the Greeks Appendix: A Rational History of the Dramatic and Lyric Poets

Book 4: The Course of Nations

Introduction

Section 1. Three Kinds of Human Nature

Section 2. Three Kinds of Customs

Section 3. Three Kinds of Natural Law

Section 4. Three Kinds of Government

Section 5. Three Kinds of Language

Section 6. Three Kinds of Symbols

Section 7. Three Kinds of Jurisprudence

Section 8. Three Kinds of Authority

Section 9. Three Kinds of Reason
Chapter 1. Divine Reason and Reason of State Chapter 2. Corollary on the Ancient Romans' Wisdom of State Chapter 3. Corollary: The Fundamental History of Roman Law

Section 10. Three Kinds of Judgments
Chapter 1. First Kind: Divine Judgments Chapter 2. Corollary on Duels and Reprisals Chapter 3. Second Kind: Ordinary Judgments Chapter 4. Third Kind: Human Judgments

Section 11. Three Schools of Thought
Chapter 1. Schools of Thought in Religious, Punctilious, and Civil Ages

Section 12. Further Proofs Drawn from the Properties of Heroic Aristocracies
Introduction Chapter 1. The Guarding of Boundaries Chapter 2. The Guarding of Social Orders Chapter 3. The Guarding of the Laws

Section 13
Chapter 1. Further Proofs Drawn from Mixed Commonwealths which Combine Earlier Governments with Later States Chapter 2. An Eternal and Natural "Royal Law" By Which Nations Come to Rest in Monarchies Chapter 3. A Refutation of the Principles of Political Theory Based on the System of Jean Bodin

Section 14. Final Proofs Confirming the Course of Nations
Chapter 1. Punishments, Wars, and the Order of Numbers Chapter 2. Corollary: Ancient Roman Law as Serious Epic Poem, and Ancient Jurisprudence as Severe Poetry Containing the First Rough Outlines of Legal Metaphysics; also, the Legal Origins of Greek Philosophy

Book 5: The Resurgence of Nations and the Recurrence of Human Institutions

Introduction Chapter 1. Medieval Barbaric History Illuminated by Ancient Barbaric History Chapter 2. The Recurrence of the Invariable Nature of Fiefs, and the Recurrence of Ancient Roman Law in Feudal Law Chapter 3. Description of the Ancient and Modern Worlds in the Light of the New Science

Conclusion of the Work

On the Eternal Natural Commonwealth, Best in its Kind, Ordained by Divine Providence

Index and Glossary

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