Giovanni Piana (April 5, 1940 – February 24, 2019)E' morto il filosofo Giovanni Piana. Era legato al territorio meratese
was an Italian

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. He taught theoretical philosophy at the

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from 1970 to 1999. He was a disciple of Enzo Paci and wrote his dissertation on

Husserl , thesis1_title = Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (Contributions to the Calculus of Variations) , thesis1_url = https://fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/get/o:58535/bdef:Book/view , thesis1_year = 1883 , thesis2_title ...

's unpublished works. His philosophical position is characterised by the concept of

phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...

("phenomenological structuralism") influenced by Husserl,

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, and Bachelard. His thought was oriented towards the philosophy of knowledge, the philosophy of

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

, and the fields of

perception Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system ...

and

imagination Imagination is the production or simulation of novel objects, sensations, and ideas in the mind without any immediate input of the senses. Stefan Szczelkun characterises it as the forming of experiences in one's mind, which can be re-creations ...

Selected bibliography

Books

*
Philosophy of Music and its Aims. A Brief Account
' *''Esistenza e storia negli inediti di Husserl'', Lampugnani Nigri, Milano 1965. English translation by A. Roda, History and Existence in Husserl's Manuscripts, in "Telos", n. 13, 1972. *''I problemi della fenomenologia'', Mondadori, Milano 1966.

Il Saggiatore, Milano 1973 (2nd edition, Guerini e Associati, 1993). *''Elementi di una dottrina dell'esperienza'', Il Saggiatore, Milano, 1979. *''La notte dei lampi. Quattro saggi sulla filosofia dell'immaginazione'', Guerini e Associati, Milano,1988
''Filosofia della musica''
Guerini e Associati, Milano 1991 (3rd print in 1995, later released in CC). Translation to Portuguese (Brazil): ''A filosofia da Música'', Edusc, Bauru 2001. *''Mondrian e la musica'', Milano, Guerini e Associati, 1995. *''Teoria del sogno e dramma musicale. La metafisica della musica di Schopenhauer'', Guerini e Associati, Milano 1997. *''Numero e figura. Idee per una epistemologia della ripetizione.'' Cuem, Milano 1999.
origini della teoria della tonalità''
2005.

References

Internet archive

Piana's Archive''

A selection of essays

*Phenomenology as philosophical metho

English translation from La fenomenologia come metodo filosofico, Introduzione al volume P. Spinicci, La visione e il linguaggio, Guerini e Associati, Milano 1992. *Immaginazione e poetica dello spazio, in Metafora Mimesi Morfogenesi Progetto, a cura di E. D'Alfonso e E. Franzini, Guerini e Associati, Milano 1991, pp. 93–100. *Considerazioni inattuali su T. W. Adorno, "Musica/Realtà", XIII, n. 39, (Dicembre 1992), pp. 27–53. *Figurazione e movimento nella problematica musicale del continuo, in Autori Vari, La percezione musicale, Guerini e Associati, Milano1993, pp. 11–36. *Fenomenologia dei materiali e campo delle decisioni. Riflessioni sull'arte del comporre, in Il canto di Seikilos, Scritti per Dino Formaggio nell'ottantesimo compleanno, Guerini e Associati, Milano 1995, pp. 45–55. *I compiti di una filosofia della musica brevemente esposti, De Musica 1997. *Elogio dell'immaginazione musicale, De Musica 1997. *La serie delle serie dodecafoniche e il triangolo di Sarngadeva, De Musica 2000. *Immagini per Schopenhauer (2001)

Translations

*G. Lukács, Scritti di sociologia della letteratura (Milano, 1964) *H M. Enzensberger, Questioni di dettaglio ( Milano 1965) *G. Lukács, Storia e coscienza di classe (Milano, 1967) *E. Husserl, Ricerche logiche (Milano, 1968) *E. Husserl, Storia critica delle idee (Milano, 1989)

Papers quoting Piana's works

"Striking sentences in Giovanni Piana's Complete works""Giovanni Piana's "Conversazioni" and some recent controversies on Husserl's "Krisis"""Giovanni Piana on musical meaning""Materials for a lexicographic analysis of Giovanni Piana's Complete works"''Bibliografia sull’estetica fenomenologica italiana 1900–1996'' ''Fenomenologia, coscienza del tempo e analisi musicale''''Le variazioni antropologico-culturali dei significati simbolici dei colori''''Zero, uno e gli «altri» numeri: Husserl e la tradizione empirista''''Burnout e risorse in Musicoterapia''''La crisi delle scienze fisiche fra Ottocento e Novecento: interpretazioni filosofiche''Scimone, Lezioni sui Fondamenti della Matematica''

International journals special issues entirely devoted to Piana

Phenomenological Reviews: Special issue in memory of Giovanni Piana

External links

*Some indications about phenomenological structuralism are contained in the articles:
"Phenomenology as philosophical method"

"The idea of a phenomenological structuralism"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Piana, Giovanni 20th-century Italian philosophers 21st-century Italian philosophers Phenomenologists 1940 births 2019 deaths People from Casale Monferrato