Reviews for New Science

The average rating for New Science based on 1 review is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-27 00:00:00 Andre Ebeling I can't imagine what Vico was thinking when he wrote his observations. I've never read anything that contains so many seeds of future thought. Marx! Darwin! Chomsky! Freud! Durkheim! Nietzsche! Foucault! Adorno! Rorty! You're all here! No wonder everyone from James Joyce to Edward Said has cited Vico as an overriding influence. OK, so he's an ultra-Catholic who believes in giants and refers to obscure Romans. I'm OK with that. He lived in different times. Regardless, I feel like I'm gaining insight into one of the most radically open minds in history, and he's able to examine the entire span of knowledge in his time. And the thing is, Vico would be the first one to admit his own historical contingency.