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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- EDITORS' PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- An Explication of the Picture Put Forward as the Frontispiece, to Serve as the Introduction to the Work -- Chronological Table -- Book One. On the Establishment of Principles -- Annotations for the Chronological Table, in Which Is Made an Arrangement of Materials -- On the Elements -- On the Principles -- On Method -- Book Two. On Poetic Wisdom -- On Wisdom in General -- An Exposition and Partitioning of Poetic Wisdom -- On the Universal Flood and the Giants -- On Poetic Metaphysics, in Which Are Given the Origins of Poetry, Idolatry, Divination, and Sacrifices -- Corollaries concerning the principal aspects of this science -- On Poetic Logic -- Corollaries concerning poetic tropes, monstrosities, and transformations -- Corollaries concerning the earliest nations speaking through poetic characters -- Corollaries concerning the origins of languages and letters, and therein the origins of hieroglyphics, of laws, of names, of insignia of noble houses, of medallions, and of money -- and, so, the origins of the earliest language and literature of the natural law of the gentile peoples -- Corollaries concerning the origins of poetic locution, digression, inversion, rhythm, song, and verse -- The additional corollaries that were proposed above -- Final corollaries concerning the logic of the learned -- On Poetic Morals, and Therein on the Origins of the Commonplace Virtues Taught by Religion Along with Marriage -- On Poetic Economics, and Therein on the Earliest Families Comprised of Children -- On the families comprised of familial servants prior to cities, without which it was completely impossible for cities to come into being -- Corollaries concerning contracts completed by consent alone -- Mythological canon.

A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico's masterpiece†‹The New Science is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised in 1730 and 1744, it calls for a reinterpretation of human civilization by tracing the stages of historical development shared by all societies. Almost unknown during his lifetime, the work had a profound influence on later thinkers, from Montesquieu and Marx to Joyce and Gadamer. This edition offers a fresh translation and detailed annotations which enable the reader to track Vico's multiple allusions to other texts. The introduction situates the work firmly within a contemporary context and newly establishes Vico as a thinker of modernity

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Porcia's "Proposal" and Vico's Autobiography -- II. The Autobiography and the New Science -- III. The New Science -- IV. Vico's Reputation and Influence -- THE LIFE OF GIAMBATTISTA VICO -- Part A, 1725 -- Part B, 1725, 1728 -- Continuation by the Author, 1731 -- Continuation by Villarosa, 1818 -- NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION -- NOTES TO THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES -- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE -- INDEX -- Index of Personal Names

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Interpreting the New Science -- Part 1. Background of the New Science in the Universal Law (1720 -1722) -- Part 2. Reception of the First New Science (1725) -- Part 3. Additions to the Second New Science (1730/1744) -- Appendix. Vico's Writings in English Translation -- Index -- The Editors