Luigi Pareyson

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

Life

He was born on February 4, 1918 in Piasco, a French-speaking village at the mouth of Varaita Valley. His parents came from the Valle d' Aosta. Luigi Pareyson began his studies very early and enrolled in November 1935, the University of Turin and completed his studies in the fall of 1939. Already in the autumn of 1935 he held 17 years, a substitute, his first lessons in grammar school Cavour in Turin. In the summer of 1936 and 1937, he became friends with Karl Jaspers in Heidelberg.

From October 1940 to March 1944 he taught philosophy at the high school classical languages ​​of Cuneo and took over the chair, the Gioele Solari belonged ( one of his favorite teachers, together with Augusto Guzzo, at the University of Turin). In Cuneo, he taught some future representatives of the Italian resistance: Ildebrando Vivanti, co-founder with his colleague Leonardo Ferrero of the active group of resistance fighters Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Liberty) and Uberto Revelli, one of the founders of the Association of resistance fighters Franchi. Among the high school students who followed him in the philosophical career can mention the following: Carlo Carata (Professor at the University of Genoa), Michelangelo Ghio (Professor at the University of Chieti), Valerio Verra (Professor at the University of Rome, now a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and one of the largest Italian historian of philosophy).

Along with Leonardo Ferrero and with Duccio Galimberti he founded in 1942 Partito d' Azione the core of Cuneo. In March 1944 he was removed from the chair and arrested by the fascist police. He was released after a few days of captivity and interrogation and continued working almost secret as the person responsible for the management office of the movement Giustizia e Libertà in the province of Cuneo, remained with Duccio Galimberti, who had to hide also, in secret conversation. As co-founder of the secret CLN Scuola Piemontese, he anonymously published several newspaper articles in L' Italia liber and program articles about the need for education and education reform.

1945-1946 he was a lecturer at the University of Turin; after a short stay at the University of Pavia, where he held the Chair of History of Philosophy 1951-1952, he took over in late 1952 at the Faculty in Turin the chair of aesthetics, which had been built especially for him. In 1964 he followed the teacher Augusto Guzzo by the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, which he held until 1984. 1948 and 1949 he also taught at the Universidad de Cuyo di Mendoza in Argentina.

He founded and directed the Rivista di Estetica long time and different philosophical rows in various publishing houses ( Mursia, Zanichelli, Bottega d' Erasmo ), for whose cooperation he could win some of the best Italian and foreign scholars. From 1985 on, he also published in a philosophical Mursia years book entitled Annuario Filosofico. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei of the Institute international de philosophie, and in 1990 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. After his death, some of his students founded in 1995, a study center named after him at the University of Turin, the Centro Studi Filosofico - religiosi ' Luigi Pareyson '. Since 1998, a planned twenty volumes complete edition Opere Complete the publisher Mursia appear in Milan.

Known students

Among his best known students were Umberto Eco and Gianni Vattimo, both her ​​thesis written under Pareyson: the former is about Thomas Aquinas and the latter on Aristotle; further Giuseppe Riconda, who succeeded him in the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy and also chairman of the Centro studi Filosofico - religiosi ( Philosophy and Religious Studies Centre ) at the University of Turin, was Sergio Givone and Mario Peniola, the greatest experts in aesthetics in Italy, then Claudio Ciancio, Francesco Moiso and Maurizo Pagano, who have dealt with the German romanticism and idealism, Ugo Perone, philosopher and cultural assessor of the city of Turin in the council with Valentino Castellani as Chairman, Valerio Zanone, secretary of the Partito Liberal Italiano, Minister of the Republic of and Mayor of Turin, Piero Bianucci, scientific journalist and director of the periodical Tuttoscienze.

Pareyson spent the last years of his life in seclusion at Rapallo and devoted himself to the last topic, as always inspired by the freedom Ontologia della libertà.

Thinking

In addition to important work on the history of philosophy ( especially Fichte, Schelling, the Romantic aesthetics, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger and Gabriel Marcel ) Pareyson concentrated mainly on problems of theoretical philosophy. As one of the first he took in Italy of existentialism in (La filosofia e dell'esistenza Carlo Jaspers, 1940; Studi sull'esistenzialismo, 1943). In later works, he turned to the German Idealism ( Fichte, 1950, Schelling 1975), aesthetics ( Estetica, 1950) and hermeneutics ( Verità e interpretazione, 1971) to.

1995 appeared posthumously Pareysons today probably the most -discussed work Ontologia della libertà in which he deals with recourse to Schelling and Dostoevsky with the concept of evil.

Writings

• La filosofia e dell'esistenza Karl Jaspers (1940 ), Casale Monferrato, 1983
• Sull'esistenzialismo Studi, Firenze, 1943
• Esistenza e persona, Genova, 1950, 1976 ( nuova ed )
• L' estetica dell'idealismo inglese, Torino, 1950
• Spruce. Il sistema della libertà, Milano, 1950, 1976 ( nuova ed )
• Estetica. Teoria della formatività, Milano, 1954, 1988 ( nuova ed )
• Teoria dell'arte, Milano, 1965
• I problemi dell'estetica, Milano, 1966
• Conversazioni di estetica, Milano, 1966
• Verità e interpretazione, Milano, 1971
• L' esperienza artistica, Milano, 1974
• Schelling, Milano, 1975
• Filosofia dell'interpretazione, Torino, 1988
• Filosofia della libertà, Genova, 1989
• Opere Complete di Luigi Pareyson, Milano 1998 ff ( a total of 20 vols )