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 by Dr. Emanuel Paparella
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 //“The principle of these origins both of languages and of letters lies in the fact that the first gentile peoples, by a demonstrated necessity of nature, were poets who spoke in poetic characters.  This discovery … is the master key of this Science.”//
-                                                                                        --Giambattista Vico (NS, 338)
+                                                                                      -Giambattista Vico (NS, 338)
 What follows is a distillation, so to speak, of my Ph.D. dissertation written at Yale University in the mid-eighties (Transcendence and Immanence In Vico’s Concept of Providence) followed by a book titled Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (1993). The revisiting, especially as regards the issue of the origins of human thought vis a vis imagination, has been prompted by some unfortunate distortions and subsuming operation of Vico’s thought  encountered since publishing the two above mentioned treatises.