About Giovanni Piana
Lived 1940 – 2019 (aged 78). Giovanni Piana was an Italian philosopher, university teacher, essayist and musicologist.
Giovanni Piana (5 April 1940 – 27 February 2019) was an Italian philosopher. He taught theoretical philosophy at the University of Milan from 1970 to 1999.
He was a disciple of Enzo Paci and wrote his dissertation on Husserl's unpublished works.
His philosophical position is characterised by the concept of phenomenology ("phenomenological structuralism") influenced by Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Bachelard. His thought was oriented towards the philosophy of knowledge, the philosophy of music, and the fields of perception and imagination.
Selected bibliography Books Philosophy of Music and its Aims. A Brief Account Esistenza e storia negli inediti di Husserl, Lampugnani Nigri, Milano 1965. English translation by A. Roda, History and Existence in Husserl's Manuscripts, in "Telos", n. 13, 1972. I problemi della fenomenologia, Mondadori, Milano 1966. Interpretazione del Tractatus di Wittgenstein, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1973 (2nd edition, Guerini e Associati, 1993). Elementi di una dottrina dell'esperienza, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 1979. La notte dei lampi. Quattro saggi sulla filosofia dell'immaginazione, Guerini e Associati, Milano,1988 Filosofia della musica, Guerini e Associati, Milano 1991 (3rd print in 1995, later released in CC). Translation to Portuguese (Brazil): A filosofia da Música, Edusc, Bauru 2001. Mondrian e la musica, Milano, Guerini e Associati, 1995. Teoria del sogno e dramma musicale. La metafisica della musica di Schopenhauer, Guerini e Associati, Milano 1997. Numero e figura. Idee per una epistemologia della ripetizione. Cuem, Milano 1999. Alle origini della teoria della tonalità , 2005.
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Italian philosopher (1940-2019)
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Giovanni Piana was born on 5 April 1940 in Casale Monferrato.
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Giovanni Piana died on 24 February 2019 in Praia a Mare.
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Giovanni Piana was a philosopher, university teacher, essayist and musicologist.
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