Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder 
Thinking the Inexhaustible [EPUB ebook] 
Art, Interpretation, and Freedom in the Philosophy of Luigi Pareyson

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