Luigi Pareysón (4 February 1918 – 8 September 1991) was an Italian
philosopher, best known for challenging the
positivist and idealist
aesthetics
Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...
of
Benedetto Croce
Benedetto Croce (; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952)
was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a lib ...
in his 1954 monograph, ''Estetica. Teoria della formatività'' (Aesthetics. A Theory of Formativity), which builds on the
hermeneutics of the Austrian philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Biography
Luigi Pareyson was born on 4 February 1918, in
Piasco, in the province of
Cuneo
Cuneo (; pms, Coni ; oc, Coni/Couni ; french: Coni ) is a city and '' comune'' in Piedmont, Northern Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area.
It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) i ...
. He received his
doctorate from the
University of Turin in 1939, finishing his degree with a dissertation entitled "
Karl Jaspers
Karl Theodor Jaspers (, ; 23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. After being trained in and practicing psychiatry, Jaspers ...
and the Philosophy of Existence." As a professor at the University of Turin, he had many famous students, including
Mario Perniola
Mario Perniola (20 May 1941 – 9 January 2018) was an Italian philosopher, professor of aesthetics and author. Many of his works have been published in English.
Biography
Mario Perniola was born in Asti, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under Lui ...
,
Gianni Vattimo
Gianteresio Vattimo (born 4 January 1936) is an Italian philosopher and politician.
Biography
Gianteresio Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduat ...
,
Umberto Eco, and Valerio Verra who studied with
Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 ''magnum opus'', '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''), on hermeneutics.
Life
Family a ...
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'' (
Ontology
In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality.
Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities ex ...
and
hermeneutics in Germany). Preceded by the Italian jurist
Emilio Betti, 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
Gianni Vattino 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).
References
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External links
Luigi Pareyson (in Italian)
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1918 births
1991 deaths
20th-century Italian philosophers
Italian semioticians
People from the Province of Cuneo
University of Turin alumni
Philosophers of art
Ontologists