Emanuele Severino Quotes on Truth

Emanuele Severino's Returning to Parmenides (1964) and the long subsequent corpus on destiny and technology develop the most uncompromising twentieth-century reaffirmation of the Eleatic doctrine that being cannot not be. Truth on Severino's analysis is the eternal manifestation of every being whatever — the framework rejects the entire post-Parmenidean tradition's tacit supposition that beings can come into and pass out of existence as itself the cognitive expression of the nihilism the philosophical tradition has falsely taken to be merely a post-Nietzschean predicament. The corresponding diagnosis of modern technology as the most thoroughgoing deployment of this nihilism — the systematic project of universal manipulation that presupposes the manipulability the recovery of Parmenides denies — runs through Severino's late writings.