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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Foreword
Translator’s Introduction: Luigi Pareyson’s Vindication of Philosophy
1. Origins of Interpretation
2. Ontological Personalism
3. The Art of Interpretation
4. The Unity of Philosophy
5. Truth and Interpretation
Truth and Interpretation
Preface
Notes
Introduction: Expressive Thought and Revelatory Thought
1. Historicistic Consideration and Speculative Discussion
2. Expression of Time and Revelation of Truth
3. Features of the Thought that Ignore the Bond between Person and Truth
4. Cryptic Discourse and Semantic Discourse: Demystification and Interpretation
5. Unobjectifiability of Truth
6. Not Mysticism of the Ineffable, but Ontology of the Inexhaustible
7. The Failure of Demythification: The Irrationalism of Reason Without Truth
8. The Servitude of Technical Thought and the Freedom of Revelatory Thought
Notes
Part I: Truth and History
1. Permanent Values and Historical Process
1. The Inadequacy of the Historicism and the Empiricism that Characterize Today’s Culture
2. The Historicity of Values and Historical Durability
3. Beyond Values and Beyond Durability: The Presence of Being
4. The Inexhaustibility of Being as Foundation of Its Presence and Ulteriority in Historical Forms
5. Historical Forms as Interpretations of Being: The Elimination of Relativism
6. The Originarity of Tradition
7. Regeneration and Revolution
8. Being and Freedom
Notes
2. The Originarity of Interpretation
1. Relation with Being and Interpretation of Truth: Ontology and Hermeneutics
2. The Historical Aspect and the Revelatory Aspect of Interpretation are Co-Essential
3. Interpretation Is Neither Subjectivistic nor Approximate
4. The Impossibility of Distinguishing a Short-Lived Aspect and a Permanent Core in Interpretation
5. The Unicity of Truth and the Multiplicity of Its Formulations Are Inseparable
6. The Formulation of Truth Is Its Interpretation, Not Its Subrogation: Neither Its Monopoly nor Its Disguise
7. The False Dilemma between the Unicity of Truth and the Multiplicity of Its Formulations
8. The Hermeneutic Character of the Relation between Truth and Its Formulation
9. Interpretation Is Not the Relation of Subject and Object
10. Interpretation Is Neither the Relation of Form and Content, nor the Relation of Virtuality and Development
11. Interpretation Does Not Imply a Relation between Parts and Whole: The Insufficiency of Integration and Explication
12. The Constitution of Interpretation
13. Consequences of the Personality of Interpretation
14. Consequences of the Ulteriority of Truth
Notes
Part II: Truth and Ideology
3. Philosophy and Ideology
1. Expressive Thought and Revelatory Thought
2. The Historicization of Thought in Ideology
3. The Technicization of Reason in Ideology
4. The Inseparability of the Historical and the Revelatory Aspects in Ontological Thought: Truth and Interpretation
5. The Originary Unity of Theory and Praxis in Ontological Thought: Being and Testimony
6. False Consciousness and Mystification in Ideological Thought
7. The Falsification of Time in Ideological Thought
8. The Complete Explication of the Implied and the Infinite Interpretation of the Implicit
9. The Problem of the End of Ideological Struggles Is Resolved Neither by Sociological Historicism nor by Historical Materialism
10. The End of Ideological Struggles Increases the Technicization of Thought
11. Only Philosophy as the Guardian of Truth Makes Dialogue Possible
Notes
4. The Destiny of Ideology
1. The Ambiguity of the Neutral or Positive Meaning of Ideology
2. The Problem of the Concrete Distinction between Ideology and Philosophy
3. The Deliberate Confusion of Philosophy and Ideology
4. The Nonphilosophical Character of Ideology
5. Weltanschauung, Philosophy, Ideology
6. The Positive Reality of Evil and Error
7. The Irreparable Negativity of Ideology
8. The Falsely Positive Aspects of Ideology and Their Denunciation
9. The Non-Ideological Character of Philosophy
10. The Concreteness of Authentic Philosophy
11. The Difference Between the Historical Character and the Ideological Character of Thought
12. The Unicity of Truth, and the Plurality, but not the Partiality, of Philosophies
13. The Problem of Negative Ontology: Ineffability or Inexhaustibility
14. Revelatory Thought Is the One Mediator between Truth and Time: The Necessity of Philosophy between Religion and Politics
15. The Rational Effectiveness of Philosophy, not of Ideology: Theory and Praxis
16. The Inevitability of Moral, not Ideological, Commitment
17. The Philosopher and Politics
18. The Inadequacy of the Mutual Subordination of Philosophy and Politics
19. The Originarity of Practice
Notes
Part III: Truth and Philosophy
5. The Necessity of Philosophy
1. Science and Religion Claim to Supplant Philosophy
2. Art and Politics Claim to Subrogate Philosophy
3. Philosophy, by Marking the Limits of Science, Keeps It Within Its Nature
4. Only Philosophy Guarantees the Reciprocal Independence of Philosophy and Religion
5. The Degeneration of Art and Politics Without Philosophy
6. Due to Excessive Critique, Philosophy Declares Its Own End
7. The Crisis of Philosophy as the Renunciation of Truth
8. The Choice between Truth and Technics
9. Philosophy as Consciousness of the Ontological Relation and the Problem of Philosophical Language
10. The Effectiveness of Philosophy as Recovery of Truth
Notes
6. Philosophy and Common Sense
1. Examples of Relations between Common Sense and Philosophy
2. The Ambiguity of Common Sense, Held between a Demand for Universality and a Destiny of Historicity
3. The Inanity and Presumptuousness of Common Sense Taken Separately from Philosophy
4. The Impossibility of Surrendering Philosophy to Common Sense
5. The Rigor of Philosophical Knowledge
6. Philosophy as the Problematization of Experience and of Common Sense Itself
7. Common Sense as the Object of Philosophy Is the Originary Ontological Relation
8. The Inseparability of Universality and Historicity in Common Sense
9. Only Truth Unites Without Depersonalizing
10. The Identity of Theory and Praxis Can Only Be Originary
11. The Profound Collaboration of Common Sense and Philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
Pareyson’s Works Translated in English
Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews on Pareyson in English
Index
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