Augusto Ponzio | |
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| Born | 17 February 1942 San Pietro Vernotico, Apulia, Italy |
| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Semiotics |
Main interests | Philosophy of language |
Augusto Ponzio (born 17 February 1942) is an Italian semiologist and philosopher.
Since 1980 is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language at Bari University, Italy and since 2015 is Professor Emeritus at the same university.
He has made a significant contribution as editor and translator to the dissemination of the ideas of Pietro Ispano, Mikhail Bakhtin, Emmanuel Lévinas, Karl Marx, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Adam Schaff and Thomas Albert Sebeok, in Italy and abroad.