Special Issue of “Phenomenological Reviews” – Giovanni Piana. In memoriam

giovedì, 31 Dicembre, 2020
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Giovanni Piana. In memoriam

Special issue of Phenomenological Reviews

edited by Emanuele Caminada and Michela Summa

 

Abstract

Giovanni Piana (1940-2019) leaves us an important body of work in the fields of phenomenology, aesthetics, and philosophy of music. Piana’s work is characterized by his ‘structuralist’ understanding of phenomenology. Such an understanding is not meant as an integration of the phenomenological method with the structuralist method developed in semiotics and applied to such different disciplines as anthropology or the theory of literature. Designating his philosophical approach as ‘structuralist phenomenology’, Piana rather intends to emphasize that phenomenology is primarily a method aiming to elucidate the structures of experience, i.e. its intrinsic order, lawfulness, and organization. Importantly, Piana takes ‘structure’ as the appropriate translation of the German ‘Wesen’. In such a way, he emphasizes that ‘structure’ is what qualifies the specific kinds of experiences according to their intrinsic features and according to the way in which they relate to their objects. Such an understanding of ‘structuralist phenomenology’ is presupposed by Piana’s philosophical project of a ‘theory of experience’, which should ground all further philosophical projects, included the theory of knowledge. Such an emphasis on the primacy of experience not only characterizes Piana’s critique to subjectivism, idealism, and constructivism. It also underlies Piana’s departing from the – for a long time dominant – overemphasizing of the ethical pathos implied in Husserl’s later discussion of the life-world. On Piana’s interpretation, recognizing the primacy of experience as embedded in the life-world should not be conceived in struct opposition to the the philosophy of science, nor should its aims be conflated with those endorsed by the philosophy of life. The return to the life-world should instead accomplish a program that is proper to phenomenology from its very beginning: retracing the sources of meaningfulness and knowledge within the self-structuration of experience and reassessing the processes and configurations that lead from simpler to more complex forms of structuration (see Piana 1996, available in German and Italian). The journal Phenomenological Reviews will dedicate a special issue to Piana and his work. This issue is not only conceived with the aim of honoring Piana’s memory. It also and particularly aims to begin the process of taking act of his intellectual legacy, to highlight the fruitfulness of his understanding of phenomenology, and to make crucial aspects of his philosophical work – available mostly in Italian – accessible to a larger international public.

 

CONTENTS

GIOVANNI PIANA

Emanuele Caminada (Husserl-Archives, KU Leuven) Michela Summa (Wurzburg University)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.1

 

THE IDEA OF A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STRUCTURALISM

Giovanni Piana

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.2

 

DIE IDEE EINES PHÄNOMENOLOGISCHEN STRUKTURALISMUS

Giovanni Piana

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.3

 

L’IDEA DI UNO STRUTTURALISMO FENOMENOLOGICO

Giovanni Piana

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.4

 

STRUCTURES OF EXPERIENCE AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF GIOVANNI PIANA

Vincenzo Costa (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.5

 

DAS SINNLICH GEGEBENE ALS DAS MASSGEBEND

Vittorio De Palma (Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.6

 

THE LIGHTNING-FILLED NIGHT

Paolo Spinicci (University of Milan)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.7

 

EXPRESSIVE QUALITIES

Francesca Forlè (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.8

 

WHOLES AND VALUES

Roberta de Monticelli (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.9

 

GIOVANNI PIANA’S “CONVERSAZIONI” AND SOME RECENT CONTROVERSIES ON HUSSERL’S “KRISIS”

Andrea Staiti (University of Parma)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.10

 

FOR A GENEALOGY OF GEOMETRICAL FIGURES

Paola Basso (University of Milan)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.11

 

SOUNDMARK(S)

Carlo Serra (University of Calabria)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.12

 

GIOVANNI PIANA ON MUSICAL MEANING

Matteo Ravasio (Peking University)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.13

 

CONTRO IL NATURALISMO, PER UNA FENOMENOLOGIA DELLA MUSICA

Riccardo Martinelli (University of Trieste)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.14

 

SOUND STANDS ON THE SKIN

Filippo Marani Tassinari (University of Milan) Matteo Meda (University of Milan)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.15

 

TRIBUTES

GIOVANNI PIANA E MARINA ROMUSSI IN STRALCI DI UNA VITA

Francesco Fersini (Liceo statale Girolamo Comi di Tricase)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.16

 

IL SEGNO LASCIATO

Sergio Lanza

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.17

 

THE IDEA OF EUROPE AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHY

Stefano Cardini

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.18

 

A NON-MENTAL EXPERIMENT

Nicola Pedone

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.19

 

STRIKING SENTENCES IN GIOVANNI PIANA’S COMPLETE WORKS

Anna Lombardo (Trinity College Dublin)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.20

 

MATERIALS FOR A LEXICOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF GIOVANNI PIANA’S COMPLETE WORKS

Valentino Piana (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)

https://doi.org/10.19079/PR.s1.21

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Un commento a Special Issue of “Phenomenological Reviews” – Giovanni Piana. In memoriam

  1. giovedì, 31 Dicembre, 2020 at 16:01

    Per noi, per la nostra piccola comunità, per la più vasta e e universale comunità di quelli che vivono per la ricerca, fuori o dentro le accademie, è un privilegio chiudere quest’anno di lontananze con questo omaggio a uno dei nostri maestri: e forse a quello che ha regalato più futuro al nostro lavoro, alla nostra “passione per le distinzioni ben fondate”, al nostro amore di chiarezza e insieme di vita. Un privilegio ma soprattutto un augurio per tutti noi. Grazie Giovanni!

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