Luigi Pareysón (4 February 1918 – 8 September 1991) was an Italian philosopher, best known for challenging the positivist and idealist

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of Benedetto Croce in his 1954 monograph, ''Estetica. Teoria della formatività'' (Aesthetics. A Theory of Formativity), which builds on the

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of the Austrian philosopher

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Biography

Luigi Pareyson was born on 4 February 1918, in

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, in the province of

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. He received his

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from the

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in 1939, finishing his degree with a dissertation entitled "

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and the Philosophy of Existence." As a professor at the University of Turin, he had many famous students, including

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, and Valerio Verra who studied with

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in Germany and diffused his thought in Italy. In 1971 Pareyson published ''Verità ed interpretazione'' (Truth and interpretation), his fundamental text which two years later was followed by Verra's monography ''Ontologia e ermeneutica in Germania'' (

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and

in Germany). Preceded by the Italian jurist

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, the work of Pareyson spread hermeneutics out of the juridical studies in which it had been limited until then. Pareyson gave birth to the Italian hermeneutic school of thought, a school that dominated the Italian philosophical gamut until the 1990s. His thought intersected the approvato of

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and Sergio Givone, followed by Carlo Sini, Vincenzo Vitiello, Carlo Bianco and Mario Ruggenini. Pareyson died in Milan on 8 September 1991.

Bibliography

*''La filosofia dell'esistenza e Karl Jaspers'', Napoli: Loffredo, 1940 (new ed. ''Karl Jaspers'', Casale M.: Marietti, 1983) *''Studi sull'esistenzialismo'', Firenze: Sansoni, 1943 *''Esistenza e persona'', Torino: Taylor, 1950 (IV ed. Genova: Il Melangolo, 1985) *''L'estetica dell'idealismo tedesco'', Torino: Edizioni di «Filosofia», 1950 *''Fichte'', Torino: Edizioni di «Filosofia», 1950 (new ed. ''Fichte. Il sistema della libertà'', Milano: Mursia, 1976) *''Estetica. Teoria della formatività'', Torino: Edizioni di «Filosofia», 1954 (new ed. Milano: Bompiani 1988) *''Teoria dell'arte'', Milano: Marzorati, 1965 *''I problemi dell'estetica'', Milano: Marzorati, 1966 *''Conversazioni di estetica'', Milano: Mursia, 1966 *''Il pensiero etico di Dostoevskij'', Torino: Einaudi, 1967 *''Verità e interpretazione'', Milano: Mursia, 1971 *''L'esperienza artistica'', Milano: Marzorati, 1974 *''Federico Guglielmo Schelling'', in ''Grande antologia filosofica'', vol. XVIII, Milano: Marzorati, 1971, pp. 1–340 *''Dostoevskij: filosofia, romanzo ed esperienza religiosa'', 1976; Torino: Einaudi, 1993 *''La filosofia e il problema del male'', "Annuario filosofico" 2 (1986), pp. 7–69 *''Filosofia dell'interpretazione'', Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier, 1988 *''Filosofia della libertà'', Genova: Il Melangolo, 1989 *''Ontologia della libertà. Il male e la sofferenza'', Torino: Einaudi, 1995 (posthumous). *''Existence, Interpretation, Freedom: Selected Writings'', Aurora (CO): Davies Group, 2009 (selected writings edited with an introduction and notes by Paolo Diego Bubbio).

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Luigi Pareyson (in Italian)
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