{"product_id":"new-science-penguin-classics-9780140435696","title":"New Science Penguin Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarely 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated by David Marsh with an Introduction by Anthony Grafton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Anthony Grafton\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIdea of the Work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplanation of the Frontispiece\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 1: Establishing Principles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronological Table\u003cbr\u003eSection 1. Notes on the Chronological Table\u003cbr\u003eSection 2. Elements\u003cbr\u003eSection 3. Principles\u003cbr\u003eSection 4. Method\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 2: Poetic Wisdom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProlegomena\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Wisdom in General\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Introduction to Poetic Wisdom and its Divisions\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Universal Flood and the Giants\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1. Poetic Metaphysics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Metaphysics as the Origin of Poetry, Idolatry, Divination, and Sacrifices\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Corollaries on the Principal Aspects of the New Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2. Poetic Logic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Logic\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Corollaries on Poetic Figures of Speech, Monsters, and Metamorphoses\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Corollaries on the Speech in Poetic Archetypes of the First Nations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Corollaries on the Origins of Poetic Style, Digressions, Inversions, Prose Rhythm, Song, and Verse\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Further Corollaries\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Final Corollaries on Logic in Educated People\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 3. Poetic Morality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Morality and the Origins of the Common Virtues Taught by Religion through the Institution of Matrimony\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 4. Poetic Economics, or Household Management\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Household Management in Nuclear Families\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Extended Families of Family Servants as Essential to the Founding of Cities\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Corollaries on Contracts Sealed by Simple Consent\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. A Principle of Mythology\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 5. Poetic Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Politics: The Severely Aristocratic Form of the First Commonwealths\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. All Commonwealths Arise from Invariable Principles of Fiefs\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Origins of the Census and Public Treasury\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Origins of Roman Assemblies\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Corollary: Divine Providence Ordains both Commonwealths and the Natural Law of Nations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Heroic Politics Continued\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Corollaries on Roman Antiquities, Particularly the Imaginary Monarchy at Rome and the Imaginary Popular Liberty Established by Junius Brutus\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Corollary on the Heroism of the First Peoples\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 6. Epitomes of Poetic History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Epitomes of Poetic History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 7. Poetic Physics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Physics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Poetic Physics of the Human Body: Heroic Nature\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Corollary on Heroic Statements\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Corollary on Heroic Descriptions\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Corollary on Heroic Customs\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 8. Poetic Cosmography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Cosmography\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 9. Poetic Astronomy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Astronomy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Astronomical, Physical, and Historical Proof that All Ancient Pagan Nations Shared Uniform Astronomical Principles\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 10. Poetic Chronology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Chronology\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Canon of Chronology for Determining the Origins of Universal History, Which Much Antedate the Monarchy of Ninus, its Traditional Starting Point\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 11. Poetic Geography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Geography\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Corollary on Aeneas' Arrival in Italy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Names and Descriptions of Heroic Cities\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 3: Discovery of the True Homer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1. The Search for the True Homer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Esoteric Wisdom Attributed to Homer\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Homer's Native Land\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Homer's Age\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Homer's Incomparable Gift for Heroic Poetry\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Philosophical Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Philological Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2. Discovery of the True Homer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Inconsistencies and Improbabilities in the Traditional Homer Become Consistent and Necessary in the Homer Discovered Here\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Homer's Epics: Two Great Repositories of the Natural Law of the Greeks\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: A Rational History of the Dramatic and Lyric Poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 4: The Course of Nations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1. Three Kinds of Human Nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2. Three Kinds of Customs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 3. Three Kinds of Natural Law\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 4. Three Kinds of Government\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 5. Three Kinds of Language\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 6. Three Kinds of Symbols\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 7. Three Kinds of Jurisprudence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 8. Three Kinds of Authority\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 9. Three Kinds of Reason\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Divine Reason and Reason of State\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Corollary on the Ancient Romans' Wisdom of State\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Corollary: The Fundamental History of Roman Law\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 10. Three Kinds of Judgments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. First Kind: Divine Judgments\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Corollary on Duels and Reprisals\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Second Kind: Ordinary Judgments\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Third Kind: Human Judgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 11. Three Schools of Thought\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Schools of Thought in Religious, Punctilious, and Civil Ages\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 12. Further Proofs Drawn from the Properties of Heroic Aristocracies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Guarding of Boundaries\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Guarding of Social Orders\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Guarding of the Laws\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Further Proofs Drawn from Mixed Commonwealths which Combine Earlier Governments with Later States\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. An Eternal and Natural \"Royal Law\" By Which Nations Come to Rest in Monarchies\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. A Refutation of the Principles of Political Theory Based on the System of Jean Bodin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 14. Final Proofs Confirming the Course of Nations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Punishments, Wars, and the Order of Numbers\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 5: The Resurgence of Nations and the Recurrence of Human Institutions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Medieval Barbaric History Illuminated by Ancient Barbaric History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Recurrence of the Invariable Nature of Fiefs, and the Recurrence of Ancient Roman Law in Feudal Law\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Description of the Ancient and Modern Worlds in the Light of the New Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion of the Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Eternal Natural Commonwealth, Best in its Kind, Ordained by Divine Providence\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex and Glossary\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732367323479,"sku":"9780140435696","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140435696.jpg?v=1719996578","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-science-penguin-classics-9780140435696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}