Luigi Pareyson

Luigi Pareyson ( pronunciation : [ -'reɪ- ]) (born February 4, 1918 in Piasco , Province of Cuneo , † September 8, 1991 in Rapallo , Province of Genoa ) was an Italian philosopher .

Life

Luigi Pareyson was born on February 4, 1918 in Piasco, an Occitan- speaking town at the mouth of the Varaita Valley. His parents came from the Aosta Valley . The 17-year old high school graduate held in the autumn of 1935 representatively his first lessons at the Cavour high school in Turin , and enrolled in November of the same year at the local university . After he had stayed in Heidelberg in the summer of 1936 and 1937 and made friends with Karl Jaspers , he finished his philosophy studies in Turin in 1939 with a thesis on Jaspers and existential philosophy ( Carlo Jaspers e la filosofia dell'esistenza ).

From October 1940 to March 1944 he taught philosophy at the ancient language high school in Cuneo . Some of his students became active in the anti-fascist resistance a little later: Ildebrando Vivanti , co-founder of the resistance group " Giustizia e Libertà " (Justice and Freedom), and Uberto Revelli , co-founder of the resistance group " Franchi ". Others embarked on philosophical careers: Carlo Arata (professor at the University of Genoa ), Michelangelo Ghio (professor at the University of Chieti ) and Valerio Verra (professor at the University of Rome ).

With Leonardo Ferrero and Duccio Galimberti , Pareyson founded the regional core of the action party “ Partito d'Azione ” in Cuneo in 1942 . In March 1944 he was released and arrested by the fascist police. He was only released after a few days of imprisonment and interrogation, continued to work underground and remained in secret contact with Duccio Galimberti, who also had to go into hiding. As a co-founder of the Committee for National Liberation “ Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale ” in Piedmont, Pareyson anonymously published various articles in the newspaper L'Italia libera and programmatic articles on the need for school and educational reform.

From 1945 to 1951 he taught at the Gioberti High School in Turin. He was also a lecturer in aesthetics at the local university and taught for two semesters at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza in Argentina from 1948 to 1949 . After he was appointed to the chair for the history of philosophy at the University of Pavia in 1951 , he took over the chair for aesthetics at the University of Turin at the end of 1952 , which had been specially established for him. In 1964 he succeeded his teacher Augusto Guzzo at the chair for theoretical philosophy in Turin, which he held until 1984.

He spent the last years of his life in seclusion at Rapallo, where he worked on his “Ontology of Freedom” ( Ontologia della libertà ).

For a long time Pareyson founded and directed the Rivista di Estetica and philosophical series in various publishing houses ( Mursia , Zanichelli , Bottega d'Erasmo ), for whose collaboration he was able to win over some of the best Italian and foreign scholars. From 1985 on he also published the yearbook Annuario Filosofico with Mursia . He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , the Institut International de Philosophie and, since 1990, a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . After his death, some of his students founded a study center named after him at the University of Turin in 1995, the “Centro Studi Filosofico-religiosi 'Luigi Pareyson'”. A complete edition of Opere Complete, planned for twenty volumes, has been published by Mursia in Milan since 1998 .

Known students

Pareyson's most famous students include Umberto Eco and Gianni Vattimo , who both wrote their thesis with him, the aesthetes Sergio Givone and Mario Perniola , as well as Claudio Ciancio , Francesco Moiso , Maurizio Pagano , Ugo Perone , Giuseppe Riconda , the politician Valerio Zanone and the journalist Piero Bianucci .

Think

In addition to work on the history of philosophy, especially on Fichte and Schelling , Pareyson dealt with problems of aesthetics from a systematic and historical perspective. Other publications concern existential philosophy and some of its representatives, such as Jaspers , Heidegger and Gabriel Marcel . The hermeneutical approach in his 1971 book Verità e interpretazione (Truth and Interpretation) has often been related to Gadamer's truth and method . In 1995 Pareyson's work Ontologia della libertà, which is probably the most discussed work today, appeared posthumously , in which he deals with the concept of evil using Schelling and Dostoevsky .

Fonts

• La filosofia dell'esistenza e Carlo Jaspers. Napoli 1940.
• Studi sull'esistentialismo. Firenze 1943.
• Esistenta e persona. Genova 1950, 1976 (new edition).
• L'estetica dell'idealismo inglese. Torino 1950.
• Spruce. Il sistema della libertà. Milano 1950, 1976 (new edition).
• Estetica. Teoria della formatività. Milano, 1954, 1988 (new edition); French Esthétique. Theory de la formativité . Paris 2007.
• Teoria dell'arte. Milano 1965.
• I problemi dell'estetica. Milano 1966.
• Conversazioni di estetica. Milano 1966.
• Verità e interpretazione. Milan 1971; English Truth and interpretation . Albany 2013.
• L'esperienza artistica. Milan 1974.
• Schelling. Milano 1975.
• Schellingiana rariora. Turin 1977 (= Philosophica varia inedita vel rariora. Volume 4).
• Karl Jaspers. Casale Monferrato 1983, 2nd edition 1997.
• Filosofia dell'interpretazione. Antologia degli scritti. Edited by Marco Ravera. Torino 1988.
• Ontologia della libertà: il male e la sofferenza. Torino 1995; French ontologie de la liberté . Paris 1998.
• Opera Complete di Luigi Pareyson. Mursia, Milano 1998 ff., OCLC 955369101 (20 volumes in total).

literature

• Gianluca De Candia: cheerful game on the edge of truth. The "weak thinking" in Umberto Eco and Gianni Vattimo and its background in the philosophy of Luigi Pareyson. In: Annuario filosofico. Volume 34, 2018, pp. 330–346.
• Gianluca De Candia: From Impossible to Potential Christianity. Luigi Pareyson and Philosophy as Hermeneutics of Religious Experience. In: Theology and Philosophy. Volume 93, 2018, pp. 555-562.
• Martin G. Weiß: Hermeneutics of the inexhaustible. The thinking of Luigi Pareyson (= Pontes. Volume 21). LIT, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7429-X .
• Martin Weiß:  Pareyson, Luigi. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 1340-1353.
• Thorsten Gubatz: Umberto Eco and his teacher Luigi Pareyson. From ontological personalism to semiotics (= Pontes. Volume 40). LIT, Berlin / Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0972-0 (also master's thesis at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau).
• Francesco Tomatis: Pareyson. Vita, filosofia, bibliografia. Morcelliana, Brescia 2003.
• Palma Sgreccia: Il pensiero di Luigi Pareyson. Una filosofia della libertà e della sofferenza. Vita e Pensiero, Milan 2006.
• Thorsten Gubatz: Heidegger, Gadamer and the Turin School. The twisting of metaphysics in the field of tension between belief and philosophy (= studies of phenomenology and practical philosophy. Volume 14). Ergon, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8991-3711-8 , especially part 3, pp. 229–390 (also dissertation at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau 2008).

Web links

• Literature by and about Luigi Pareyson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Internet site of the Centro Studi Filosofico-religiosi "Luigi Pareyson"