 It is therefore fitting that his last book, published posthumously, should be one that he describes as being "something of a shorter and more accessible version of the longer books, "The Great Code" and "Words with Power"," which he asks his readers to read sympathetically, not "as proceeding from a judgment seat of final conviction, but from a rest stop on a pilgrimage, however near the pilgrimage may now be to its close" ("Double Vision" Preface).Vico, in "The New Science", posited a view of language as fundamentally figurative, and introduced into Enlightenment discourse the notion of the role of the imagination in creating meaning.For Vico, poetic discourse is prior to philosophical discourse; philosophy is in fact derivative of poetry.