Venanzio Raspa

Written in the first person, the Selbstdarstellung (Self-portrait) offers a clear and lively presentation of Kazimierz Twardowski’s biographical and intellectual path, as well as a testimony of how modern Polish philosophy was born at  the turn of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Twardowski emerges as a young philosopher and pupil of Brentano, a scrupulous teacher who was very attentive to the education and autonomy of his students, and a tireless  organizer of philosophical life in Poland. Twardowski’s Selbstdarstellung is presented for the first time in Italian translation. It is preceded by a brief introduction which takes into consideration various historiographical interpretations.

A century after the death of Alexius Meinong (1853-1920), founder of the «object theory», «Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica» devotes a special issue to the theme: «Meinong and his Contemporaries». During his life, Meinong enjoyed the same notoriety as Husserl, to whom he was commonly compared well in criticism as in appreciation; another figure often associated to him is Russell, with whom Meinong had a controversy that has been extensively studied...

Aristotle’s theory of language is studied with regard to the possibility of saying what does not exist, either because one can express falsity, or because one can truthfully speak of nonexistent. According to Aristotle, symbol and sign are not the same: the symbol is a kind of sign, an articulated linguistic sign...