Truth and Interpretation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438447506)

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.

Author: Luigi Pareyson
ISBN-10: 1438447507
ISBN-13: 9781438447506
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2014
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.04h x 5.88w x 0.34d