The book first provides an overview of the transition, in the second half of the last century, from analytic to post-analytic philosophy, explaining to the reader how and why this situation came about. It also thematizes the rediscovery, within Anglo-American philosophical circles, of pragmatism — a current that had been overshadowed for decades by the logical neopositivism of Viennese origin and by analytic philosophy itself. The book then examines the relationships among authors such as Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and Ni…
The Dictionary of the Etruscan Language ( Dizionario della Lingua Etrusca , hereafter DETR) represents, without question, the first and, to date, the only comprehensive lexicon ever published on the Etruscan language . Its compilation required nearly thirty-five years of sustained scholarly labor on the part of its Author. The work contains approximately 8,500 lexical entries — that is, every term attested in inscriptions of various kinds up to the present, specifically through the year 2012. For each of these entries, the DETR presents th…