Il progetto e la sorpresa. Giuseppe Pontiggia critico e saggista tra metodo, verifica e retorica

Il progetto e la sorpresa. Giuseppe Pontiggia critico e saggista tra metodo, verifica e retorica reconstructs and evaluates Giuseppe Pontiggia’s critical and essayistic thought by treating it as a coherent—though deliberately unsystematic—reflection on writing, reading, and intellectual responsibility. The thesis argues that Pontiggia’s work is organized around a persistent tension: on the one hand, an aspiration toward an “absolute language” capable of approaching being in its totality; on the other, an insistence on control, testing, and “verification” as limits that keep interpretation from dissolving into mere oracular suggestion. The inquiry is grounded in a broad and hierarchically arranged corpus. It privileges Pontiggia’s author-curated essay collections as the most stylistically controlled and conceptually dense texts; it then integrates posthumous volumes (including transcribed lectures and conversations), occasional writings (especially journalistic pieces whose topicality exposes ethical and political commitments more sharply), and a smaller but strategically important set of archival materials, such as typescripts and private notes. This stratification makes it possible to follow Pontiggia’s recurring ideas across different textual regimes—highly revised prose, oral performance transcriptions, and contingent public interventions— while testing how stable those ideas remain when stylistic control loosens. Methodologically, the thesis combines literary-historical reconstruction, narratological tools, and— crucially—analytic philosophical scrutiny. Pontiggia’s essays and aphoristic pronouncements often present themselves as if their validity were self-evident; yet they routinely imply claims about truth, justification, and rational persuasion. The work therefore treats Pontiggia not merely as a brilliant stylist but as an author who advances theses with epistemic ambition, and it asks whether those theses are supported by arguments that withstand explicit reconstruction and evaluation. To do so, it foregrounds distinctions central to analytic philosophy (such as the difference between what is rhetorically effective and what is inferentially warranted) and reads Pontiggia’s critical discourse as a site where claims about language, judgment, and knowledge can be assessed for consistency and justificatory force.

Grantor dc:publisher

Università degli studi di Trento

Year dc:date

2026

Author dc:creator

• Zanetti, Marco

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rizzante, Massimo

• Giuseppe Pontiggia
• critica letteraria
• saggistica
• retorica
• prosa
• filosofia analitica
• narratologia
• teoria della lettura
• epistemologia della letteratura

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• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• license:Tutti i diritti riservati (All rights reserved)
• license uri:iris.PRI01

Language dc:language

ita

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https://hdl.handle.net/11572/484235

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oai:iris.unitn.it:11572/484235