Luigi Pareyson

1918 - 1991

country of citizenship: Italy, Kingdom of Italy

native language: Italian

languages spoken, written or signed: Italian

educated at: University of Turin

occupation: art historian, politician, philosopher, university teacher

student of: Augusto Guzzo

influenced by: Martin Heidegger

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)