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>Vico's poetic wisdom
If you've read Sorel you'll be familiar with it's application to his sydicalism and the poetic myth of the general strike and class war. Poetic wisdom is contrasted to intellectual wisdom and posited as a way both pre-intellectual societies think and how we all think non-intellectually.

We imagine poetic archetypes and project them onto our history, material causes, and contemporary struggles as poetic, rather than literal, truths. A contemporary example would be how people interpret politics through pop-culture, as "Dumbledore's Army" resisting evil, or as the defenders of Tolkien's Middle-Earth against an Orc invasion of third world hordes. Or the Greek poetic physics that gives fable explanations to natural phenomenon, like sound echos in valleys being the result of the nymph Echo being enamored with Narcissus and repeating his calls through the forest.

Stanford has an article and the Bergin & Fisch edition of the New Science is very accessible.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/#NewScie