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  • Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science": Translations, Commentaries, and Essays
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  • Giambattista Vico. edited by Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene
  • 2011
  • Published by: Cornell University Press
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Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work. Thora llin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene have collected a series of texts that help us to understand the progress of Vico's thinking, culminating in the definitive version of the New Science, which was published in 1744.

Bayer and Verene provide useful introductions both to the collection as a whole and to the individual writings. What emerges is a clear picture of the decades-long process through which Vico elaborated his revolutionary theory of history and culture. Of particular interest are the first sketch of the new science from his earlier work, the Universal Law, and Vico's response to the false book notice regarding the first version of his New Science. The volume also includes additions to the 17 44 edition that Vico had written out but that do not appear in the English translations-including his brief chapter on the "Reprehension of the Metaphysics of Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke"-and a bibliography of all of Vico's writings that have appeared in English. Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" is a unique and vital companion for anyone reading or rereading this landmark of Western intellectual history.

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  1. Cover
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 3-6
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Illustrations
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction: Interpreting the New Science
  2. pp. 1-14
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  1. Part 1. Background of the New Science in the Universal Law (1720 –1722)
  1. Synopsis of Universal Law
  2. pp. 17-38
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  1. The True and the Certain: From On the One Principle and One End of Universal Law
  2. pp. 39-44
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  1. A New Science Is Essayed: From On the Constancy of the Jurisprudent
  2. pp. 45-60
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  1. On Homer and His Two Poems: From the Dissertations
  2. pp. 61-72
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  1. Vico’s Address to His Readers from a Lost Manuscript on Jurisprudence
  2. pp. 73-82
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  1. Part 2. Reception of the First New Science (1725)
  1. Vico’s Reply to the False Book Notice: The Vici Vindiciae
  2. pp. 85-106
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  1. Vindication of Vico
  2. pp. 107-136
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  1. Part 3. Additions to the Second New Science (1730/1744)
  2. pp. 137-142
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  1. Vico’s “IGNOTA LATEBAT”: On the Impresa and the Dipintura
  2. pp. 143-166
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  1. Vico’s Addition to the Tree of the Poetic Sciences and His Use of the Muses
  2. pp. 167-178
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  1. Vico’s Reprehension of the Metaphysics of René Descartes, Benedict Spinoza, and John Locke
  2. pp. 179-198
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  1. Appendix: Vico’s Writings in English Translation
  2. pp. 199-204
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 205-209
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  1. The Editors
  2. pp. 210-226
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