Augusto Ponzio

Augusto Ponzio
Born	(1942-02-17) 17 February 1942 (age 82) 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.