- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Preface
- Bibliographical note
- Abbreviations and Notes on Citations
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Chapter 1 Sense and Method of the New Science -
Chapter 2 Genesis of the New Science -
Chapter 3 Structure of the New Science - Introduction
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Chapter 4 Genesis of the Frontispiece -
Chapter 5 Structure of the Frontispiece - Introduction
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Chapter 6 Chronological Table -
Chapter 7 Elements -
Chapter 8 Principles -
Chapter 9 Method - Introduction
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Chapter 10 Tree of Poetic Wisdom -
Chapter 11 Poetic Metaphysics -
Chapter 12 Poetic Logic -
Chapter 13 Poetic Morals, Economy, and Politics -
Chapter 14 Poetic Sciences - Introduction
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Chapter 15 Search for the True Homer -
Chapter 16 Discovery of the True Homer - Introduction
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Chapter 17 Threefold Structure of the Course of the Nations -
Chapter 18 Recourse of the Nations -
Chapter 19 On an Eternal Natural Republic - Glossary of Italian Terms
- Key to English Equivalents
- Chronological Summary of Vico’s Life and Principal Works
- Some Works of Secondary Literature on Vico
- Index of Names
- Plates
Poetic Sciences
Poetic Sciences
- Chapter:
- (p.151) Chapter 14 Poetic Sciences
- Source:
- Vico's "New Science"
- Author(s):
Donald Phillip Verene
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter examines the section on poetic sciences in the New Science. According to Giambattista Vico, all the branches of his tree of poetic wisdom hold poetic sciences, taking sciences in the sense of fields of knowledge, with those issuing from the second limb of the trunk being natural sciences. Poetic logic, morals, economy, and politics each occupy a separate branch from the first limb, but the poetic natural sciences are described as a configuration, branching off from each other. Logic occupies a special place in regard to the other humanistic sciences, as they presuppose the tropes and uses of language and letters it distinguishes. In the poetic natural sciences, physics has a corresponding role to logic. This chapter considers Vico’s scheme regarding the movement of thought as it relates to the questions of metaphysics to the questions of physics. It also discusses Vico’s views about poetic geography as well as the world of the theological poets.
Keywords: poetic sciences, New Science, Giambattista Vico, poetic wisdom, natural sciences, poetic logic, physics, metaphysics, poetic geography, theological poets
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Preface
- Bibliographical note
- Abbreviations and Notes on Citations
-
Chapter 1 Sense and Method of the New Science -
Chapter 2 Genesis of the New Science -
Chapter 3 Structure of the New Science - Introduction
-
Chapter 4 Genesis of the Frontispiece -
Chapter 5 Structure of the Frontispiece - Introduction
-
Chapter 6 Chronological Table -
Chapter 7 Elements -
Chapter 8 Principles -
Chapter 9 Method - Introduction
-
Chapter 10 Tree of Poetic Wisdom -
Chapter 11 Poetic Metaphysics -
Chapter 12 Poetic Logic -
Chapter 13 Poetic Morals, Economy, and Politics -
Chapter 14 Poetic Sciences - Introduction
-
Chapter 15 Search for the True Homer -
Chapter 16 Discovery of the True Homer - Introduction
-
Chapter 17 Threefold Structure of the Course of the Nations -
Chapter 18 Recourse of the Nations -
Chapter 19 On an Eternal Natural Republic - Glossary of Italian Terms
- Key to English Equivalents
- Chronological Summary of Vico’s Life and Principal Works
- Some Works of Secondary Literature on Vico
- Index of Names
- Plates
