Giambattista Vico - The New Science and other works (6 books)

GIAMBATTISTA VICO (1668-1744) was an Italian political philosopher, historian and jurist who is today regarded as one of the important figures in European intellectual history. Vico criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, was an apologist for Classical Antiquity, and the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics. He inaugurated the modern field of the philosophy of history (a "history of philosophy narrated philosophically").

His first original work, ON THE STUDY METHODS OF OUR TIME (1708-9), argued against the compartmentalization of knowledge resulting from the arid logic of Cartesianism and other types of reductionism. In contrast, Vico celebrated the humanistic tradition and posited the need for a comprehensive science of humanity which recognizes the value of memory and imagination.

THE NEW SCIENCE (La Scienza Nuova) is Vico's intellectual masterpiece. First published in 1725 and revised in 1730 and 1744, it attempted an ambitious, systematic organization of the humanities as a single science that recorded and explained the historical cycles by which all societies rise and fall. Although barely acknowledged in Vico's lifetime, the book has gone on to be highly regarded and influential in the philosophy of history, sociology, and anthropology. The historical cycle provided the structure for James Joyce's book, Finnegans Wake (1939).

His AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1735-41) is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on his intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person, Vico records the course of his life and the influence that various thinkers had on the development of concepts central to his mature work.


The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as specified:

* Autobiography (Cornell, 1963). Thomas Bergin and Max Fisch, trans. -- ePUB + PDF^
* First New Science, The [1725] (Cambridge, 2002). Leon Pompa, trans. -- PDF
* New Science [1744] (Penguin Classics, 2013). David Marsh, trans. -- ePUB
* New Science [1744] (Cornell, 1968). Thomas Bergin and Max Fisch, trans. -- ePUB + PDF^
* New Science [1744] (Yale, 2020). Jason Taylor and Robert Miner, trans. -- ePUB
* On the Study of Methods of Our Time (Bobbs-Merrill, 1965). Elio Gianturco, trans. -- PDF


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