"This book introduces, in a way that has not been done before, the central ideas from Pareyson's long philosophical career. It opens up pathways for further critical analysis and fills in a neglected history within the broader scope of continental philosophy." — James Risser, editor of <i>Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s</i>

What if the inexhaustible were the only mode of self-revelation of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth, and its relation to being and interpretation, is the challenge posed by the philosophy of the prominent Italian thinker Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991). Art, the interpretation of truth, and the theory of being as the ontology of both inexhaustibility and freedom constitute the main themes of Pareyson's distinctive form of philosophical hermeneutics, which develops also on the basis of another fundamental concept, that of personhood understood in the radically existentialist sense of the human being. In Thinking the Inexhaustible, Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder bring together essays devoted to Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy by important international scholars, including well-known Italian thinkers Umberto Eco and Gianni Vattimo, who were both students of Pareyson. Pareyson's philosophy of inexhaustibility unfolds in conversation with major figures in Western intellectual history—from Croce to Valéry, Dostoevsky, and Berdyaev; from Kant to Fichte, Hegel, and German romanticism; and from Pascal to Schelling, Kierkegaard, Marcel, Jaspers, and Heidegger.
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Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.
Acknowledgments Foreword Dennis J. Schmidt Introduction: Thinking the Inexhaustible Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder 1. Luigi Pareyson: A Master in Italian Hermeneutics Silvia Benso 2. When Transcendence Is Finite: Pareyson, the Person, and the Limits of Being Antonio Calcagno 3. Pareyson’s Role in Twentieth-Century Italian Aesthetics Paolo D’Angelo 4. Pareyson vs. Croce: The Novelties of Pareyson’s 1954 Estetica Umberto Eco 5. On Pareyson’s Interpretation of Kant’s Third Critique Massimo Cacciari 6. Pareyson’s Aesthetics as Hermeneutics of Art Federico Vercellone 7. The Unfamiliarity of Kindredness: Toward a Hermeneutics of Community Robert T. Valgenti 8. Truth as the Origin (Rather Than Goal) of Inquiry Lauren Swayne Barthold 9. The “I” Beyond the Subject/Object Opposition: Pareyson’s Conception of the Self Between Hegel and Heidegger Paolo Diego Bubbio 10. From Aesthetics to the Ontology of Freedom Gianni Vattimo 11. Evil in God: Pareyson’s Ontology of Freedom Martin G. Weiss 12. Philosophy and Novel in the Later Pareyson Sergio Givone Bibliography Contributors Index
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"This book introduces, in a way that has not been done before, the central ideas from Pareyson's long philosophical career. It opens up pathways for further critical analysis and fills in a neglected history within the broader scope of continental philosophy." — James Risser, editor of Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s
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ISBN
9781438470269
Publisert
2019-07-02
Utgiver
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State University of New York Press
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227 gr
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Antall sider
230

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Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.