Principes d'une science nouvelle relative à la nature commune des nations : 1744

Giambattista Vico

Publié par Fayard, le 25 avril 2001

560 pages

Résumé

Barely 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.

Vie de Giambattista Vico écrite par lui-même

De l'antique sagesse de l'Italie

La méthode des études de notre temps ; de nostri temporis studiorum ratione

Réponses aux objections faites à la métaphysique - De antiquissima Italorum sapientia, Liber metaphysicus (1711-1712)

Principes d'une science nouvelle relative à la nature commune des nations : 1744

La Méthode des études de notre temps

De la très ancienne philosophie des peuples italiques. - Edition bilingue français-latin

Massacres en Normandie - Les fusillés de la prison de Caen

Critiques