overlap rather than a total separation. Secondly, I will scrutinize the concept of
‘poetic logic’ developed by Vico, and I will contend that this logic might provide
a convincing explanation for the ultimate a-rationality of the language. In con-
clusion, I will show how the debate considered might lay the foundations of a
new hermeneutics that might be able to overcome the traditional dualism betwe-
en logocentrism and relativism.
ANDREA SANGIACOMO
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