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Title: Autobiography of Giambattista Vico by Giambattista Vico, Thomas Godd Bergin, Max H. Fisch, Thomas Goddard Bergin ISBN: 0-8014-9088-X Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1970 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: VICO UPDATE
Comment: Thanks to those who have emailed me about Vico.
To date there have been five responses to my previously posted request. (above)
1) A reader from Mexico read about Vico in a history of Philosophy.
2) A reader from Israel read about Vico in a book by Moshe Barasch, Modern Theories of Art, 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814710611/
3) A reader from England read about Vico in the works the philosopher Isaiah Berlin.
4) A Beckett scholar from Texas found Vico through Beckett, a protégé of Joyce.
5) A reader from NYC found Vico through McLuhan.
Note the email address for those interested in responding about how they ... riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Vico.
And as note of Interest, I liked the book better the second time through. It's worth the time to read it. Hurry up and order it before they run out of copies.
bp
Rating: 4
Summary: THE LIFE OF AN AUTODIDACT
Comment: "The Vico road goes round and round to meet where terms begin..." writes James Joyce in Finnegans Wake, whereas well, Vico appears as Mr. John Baptister Vickar. The opening page of FW has the hundred-lettered clap of Vico's all initiating thunder, which recurs at intervals. Vico's ideas have permeated the consciousness of everyday thought, having been placed there by Karl Marx, James Joyce, Marshall McLuhan, and Joseph Campbell to name a notable few.
It is an honest account of a life lived ex-centric. His insights into the history of civilization were (and still are) a far cry from Orthodox historical exegesis, and he paid a great personal price to develop and hold them. However, there is an enthusiasm and vitality that exudes from his stated ideas, and this book serves as a firm stepping stone into the thought expressed in his New Science.
The introduction by the translators helps establish a context for Vico and his New Science, and establishes Vico as one of the first to write an autobiography, an art from that didn't have a formal name at that time.
If you are interested in this book, you likely came here from Joyce or McLuhan to drink from their source. If not, I would like to know what other paths lead to Vico, and an email to me would be appreciated as to the commodius vicas of recirculation back to Vico.
Budd Poston
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Title: The New Science of Giambattista Vico by Giovanni Battista Vico, Thomas G. Bergin, Giambattista Vico, Max H. Fisch ISBN: 0801492653 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: On the Study Methods of Our Time by Giambattista Vico, Elio Gianturco ISBN: 0801497787 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: New Science: Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations (Penguin Classics) by Giambattista Vico, Anthony Grafton, David Marsh ISBN: 0140435697 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Isaac Newton by James Gleick ISBN: 0375422331 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston ISBN: 1579546463 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 05 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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