The Originary Structure is the fundamental text that allows us to understand the thought of one of the most important contemporary philosophers in its entirety and systematicity. An unparalleled analysis of the foundation and incontrovertibility of the truth of being, it finds its place among the most important texts in the history of Western philosophy.

Umberto Galimberti, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Long overdue, the appearance in English of Severino's ground-breaking vision of western philosophy comes at the right time, just when the “battle of giants over being” is firing up again in both science and philosophy. Severino's audacity will leave no philosophical reader indifferent.

Miguel Vatter, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

Emanuele Severino's early Opus magnum, The Originary Structure, can undoubtedly be included among the ten most important and significant works produced by 20th-century philosophy. The book addresses the question of truth, and answers it by emphasising the inescapable interconnection of being and knowing: the ultimate ground of knowing is the being of knowing. As knowers and questioners of truth, we do not approach the question of truth from outside: rather, we are always already within the circle of being, which originarily structures itself as knowing. Severino's wide-ranging elaboration of this thesis is more than 'Neoparmenidism': it is an example of genuinely speculative philosophy and lasting inspirational power.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Sören Hoffmann, Institut für Philosophie der FernUniversität in Hagen