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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SUNY Press

Year

2018

Print ISBN

9781438470269, 9781438470252

eBook ISBN

9781438470276

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Aesthetics in Philosophy

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: Thinking the Inexhaustible
1. Luigi Pareyson: A Master in Italian Hermeneutics
2. When Transcendence Is Finite: Pareyson, the Person, and the Limits of Being
3. Pareyson’s Role in Twentieth-Century Italian Aesthetics
4. Pareyson vs. Croce: The Novelties of Pareyson’s 1954 Estetica
5. On Pareyson’s Interpretation of Kant’s Third Critique
6. Pareyson’s Aesthetics as Hermeneutics of Art
7. The Unfamiliarity of Kindredness: Toward a Hermeneutics of Community
8. Truth as the Origin (Rather Than Goal) of Inquiry
9. The “I” Beyond the Subject/Object Opposition: Pareyson’s Conception of the Self Between Hegel and Heidegger
10. From Aesthetics to the Ontology of Freedom
11. Evil in God: Pareyson’s Ontology of Freedom
12. Philosophy and Novel in the Later Pareyson
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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