New Science

Name: New Science
Author: Giambattista Vico

by Giambattista Vico

Revolutionary history claiming humans make history through language and culture

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Giambattista Vico

Italian philosopher of history whose New Science proposed that human beings can understand history because they made it. He argued against Descartes that the humanities require their own methods distinct from natural science. His theory of historical cycles (corso e ricorso) anticipated 19th-century historicism.

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