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| | Vico's Uncanny Humanism |
 | | Vico claimed it took him twenty years to grasp the master key of the New Science, that the first men of the human race were poets--that is, creators--prehuman beings who, with their poetic language, created not only the human world, but their own human existence. |
 | | Thus, the New Science does not yield epistemological truth in the philosophic sense, but, rather, the hermeneutic understanding that, ontologically, humans are creators, that what they create are the true things of the human world. |
 | | The narratives we moderns make with our abstract, conceptual language--whether of analytic philosophy, the social sciences, even the narratives of natural science, and certainly those of Vico scholarship--yield only constructed "truths," along with the hermeneutic insight that humans are by nature creators, that among the things they make are their "true" narratives. |
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