Thinking the Inexhaustible

<p><b>Essays address the major themes of Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.</b></p><p>What if the <i>inexhaustible</i> were the only mode of self-revelation of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth and its relation to being and interpretation is the challenge posed by the philosophy of the prominent Italian thinker Luigi Pareyson (1918-1991). Art the interpretation of truth and the theory of being as the ontology of both inexhaustibility and freedom constitute the main themes of Pareyson's distinctive form of philosophical hermeneutics which develops also on the basis of another fundamental concept that of personhood understood in the radically existentialist sense of the human being. In <i>Thinking the Inexhaustible</i> Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder bring together essays devoted to Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy by important international scholars including well-known Italian thinkers Umberto Eco and Gianni Vattimo who were both students of Pareyson. Pareyson's philosophy of inexhaustibility unfolds in conversation with major figures in Western intellectual history-from Croce to Valéry Dostoevsky and Berdyaev; from Kant to Fichte Hegel and German romanticism; and from Pascal to Schelling Kierkegaard Marcel Jaspers and Heidegger.</p>