Truth and Interpretation

Informationen zum Autor Robert T. Valgenti is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College. Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Klappentext Luigi Pareyson (1918-1991) was one of the most important Italian philosophers to emerge after World War II and stands shoulder to shoulder with fellow hermeneutic thinkers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. The product of a well-developed theory of interpretation that stretches back to the late 1940s, his 1971 masterpiece Truth and Interpretation provides the historical impetus and theoretical framework for the questions of existence, art, and politics that would motivate his most famous students, Umberto Eco and Gianni Vattimo. In a time when the meaning of truth as an interpretation is challenged by the chaotic din of media on the one side and the violent force of absolute claims from science, religion, and political economy on the other, Pareyson's meditation on the value of thinking that is shaped by the traditions of philosophy and yet responds to contemporary demands remains timely and pressing more than forty years after its initial publication.

About the author

Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of many books, including coeditor (with Elvira Roncalli) of Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of many books, including coeditor (with Elvira Roncalli) of Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Luigi Pareyson, Luigi/ Valgenti Pareyson, Pareyson Luigi
• Assisted by: Silvia Benso (Editor), Benso Silvia (Editor), Valgenti Robert T. (Introduction), Vattimo Gianni (Foreword), Robert T. Valgenti (Translation), Valgenti Robert T. (Translation)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9781438447490
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-4749-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary It; SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism