Robert T. Valgenti is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College. Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Acknowledgments
Translator's Note
Foreword by Gianni Vattimo
Translator's Introduction: Luigi Pareyson's Vindication of Philosophy by Robert T. Valgenti
Preface
Introduction: Expressive Thought and Revelatory Thought

Part I: Truth and History

1. Permanent Values and Historical Process

2. The Originarity of Interpretation

Part II: Truth and Ideology

3. Philosophy and Ideology

4. The Destiny of Ideology

Part III: Truth and Philosophy

5. The Necessity of Philosophy

6. Philosophy and Common Sense

Bibliography
Index