Reviews for Vico: A Study of the 'New Science'

The average rating for Vico: A Study of the 'New Science' based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-11-01 00:00:00 Georg Karl Schaefer 3.5/5. If anything the book was too short. Schrift deftly and succinctly describes the more obvious Nietzschean influences on Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze. The 4th chapter on Cixous which was interesting, but sort of odd and mostly about gifts which I'm only kind of interested in. The last chapter is about why Lyotard and others are turning away from Nietzsche, and deals with French anti-Nietzscheans like Descombes. It was funny seeing Dinesh D'Souza cited as a legitimate academic source (and demolished easily); this was published in 1995 after all. Overall, I thought the book was very good, but as Schrift pretty much admits in the introduction it is woefully incomplete, lacking people such as Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski - though he admits this is due to his lack of knowledge of those thinkers. Modest and understandable, but still not quite what I was looking for in this book, despite it being a good read.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-26 00:00:00 Jason Swedin Schrift gives a very good account of Nietzsche's influence on Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze. Especially in the Deleuze chapter when he shows the similarities between Deleuze's ANTI_OEDIPUS and NIetzsche's A GENEALOGY OF MORALS. I liked the book so much I am translating it into persian! And I like it because Schrift is very sympathetic to the Nietzschen philosophers of the 1960s.