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What do you think of this book, /lit/? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Science
I think it puts forward an interesting model of social development, and is essentially Hegel without the necessity for anything transcendental. It is also a fairly hilarious read, utilizing the newest scientific findings at the time to illustrate ideas that Vico, as an educated person, could not have believed to be connected to those findings in any way (e.g., then-nascent archeology and paleontology used to justify the Bible and Greek myths). Seems to be an inspiration for Finnegan's Wake, which I haven't gone thrugh yet.
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>>8329902
>Seems to be an inspiration for Finnegan's Wake
Have it on backlog probably on this basis, haven't gotten to it yet. Any more of this kind?
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>>8329913
Well, I don't know, Imperium mentions it once, and has some strange ideas that I personally find to be related to colloidal computing (don't ask me how, it's a really fucking strange association), but I really know of nothing similar. Oh, maybe Editorhpa, which is also strangely related to colloids (its author invented Lloyd's reagent) and far-right (it's an American thing, to be a pharmacist, Mason and super-racist), but it's not nearly as exciting, unless you are good at speculative Freemasonry/are a high-ranking Mormon, of which I am neither.
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>>8329941
>Editorhpa
Interesting
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Bloom (Western Canon guy) was fan: https://myweb.rollins.edu/sphelan/bloom.htm
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