Luigi Pareyson

Luigi Pareysón (4 February 1918 – 8 September 1991) was an Italian philosopher, best known for challenging the positivist and idealist aesthetics of Benedetto Croce in his 1954 monograph, ''Estetica. Teoria della formatività'' (Aesthetics. A Theory of Formativity), which builds on the hermeneutics of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Biography
Luigi Pareyson was born on 4 February 1918, in Piasco, in the province of Cuneo. He received his doctorate from the University of Turin in 1939, finishing his degree with a dissertation entitled "Karl Jaspers and the Philosophy of Existence". As a professor at the University of Turin, he had many famous students, including Mario Perniola, Gianni Vattimo, Umberto Eco, and Valerio Verra who studied with Gadamer in Germany and diffused his thought in Italy.

In 1971 Pareyson published Verità ed interpretazione (Truth and interpretation), his fundamental text which two years later was followed by Verra's monography Ontologia e ermeneutica in Germania (Ontology and hermeneutics in Germany). Preceded by the Italian jurist Emilio Betti, the work of Pareyson spread hermeneutics out of the juridical studies in which it had been limited until then. Pareyson gave birth to the Italian hermeneutic school of thought, a school that dominated the Italian philosophical gamut until the 1990s. His thought intersected the approval of Gianni Vattimo and Sergio Givone, followed by Carlo Sini, Vincenzo Vitiello, Carlo Bianco and Mario Ruggenini.

Pareyson died in Milan on 8 September 1991.

Philosophy
Luigi Pareyson's philosophy is centered on the problem of evil and suffering. His starting point is the reception of Schelling's late philosophy. Xavier Tilliette described Pareyson as «Schelling redivivus».