Vico: The First New Science (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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This account of the basic theme of Vico's mature philosophy explores the question of whether philosophical theories can ever be more than an intellectual expression of the underlying beliefs of an age. The first complete English translation of the 1725 text, Vico's The First New Science ia now accessible to a broad, new readership. It is accompanied by a glossary, bibliography, chronology of Vico's life and expository introduction.
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The First New Science gives a clear account of Vico's mature philosophy: the belief that certain functions which are necessary for the maintenance of human society and culture, including philosophy, also condition them historically. This challenges the traditional view that philosophy can lay claim to an historically independent viewpoint, thus bringing into question the legitimacy of the claims of universal prescriptive political theories as against the de facto political beliefs of particular historical societies. This is the first of Vico's later major books in which he wrote in Italian in order not merely to expound but to demonstrate in practice, his conception of the philosophical importance of etymology. This Cambridge Texts edition is the first complete English translation of the 1725 text. Accompanied by a glossary, bibliography, chronology of Vico's life and expository introduction, it makes this important work accessible to students for the first time.
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Vico: The First New Science (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought),Gianbattista Vico,Leon Pompa,Raymond Geuss,Quentin Skinner,Cambridge University Press,0521387264,History,History & Surveys - Modern,International Relations - Arms Control,Philosophy,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Reference,History of ideas, intellectual history,Political Science / Reference,Vico, Giambattista,--1668-1744.--Principi di una scienza nuova,Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800
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