Description
Book SynopsisA pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's "New Science" is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory.
Trade ReviewThis new edition of the famous Bergin and Fisch translation of Vico's Scienza nuova, originally published in 1948 and reissued in a revised edition in 1968, includes a translation of a piece of Vico’s work called the Practica.... It is a great advantage to have [the "Practic of the New Science"] reprinted with the text of the New Science as it offers some of Vico’s views on the application of his science.... Cornell University Press is to be congratulated for... this new full edition.
* Review of Metaphysics *
Table of ContentsPreface
Bibliographic Note
Abbreviations and Signs
Introduction by Max Harold Fisch
IDEA OF THE WORK
BOOK ONE: ESTABLISHMENT OF PRINCIPLES
BOOK TWO: POETIC WISDOM
BOOK THREE: DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE HOMER
BOOK FOUR: THE COURSE NATIONS RUN
BOOK FIVE: THE RECOURSE OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS WHICH THE NATIONS TAKE WHEN THEY RISE AGAIN
CONCLUSION OF THE WORK
Appendix: "Practic of the New Science"
Index of Names
