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First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who viewed art as a metaphysical aspect of reality rather than a futuristic anticipation of it. Following Martin Heidegger's interpretation of the history of philosophy, Vattimo outlines the existent...

A daring marriage of philosophical theory and practical politics, this collection is the first of Gianni Vattimo's many books to combine his intellectual pursuits with his public and political life. Vattimo is a paradoxical figure, at once a believing Christian and a vociferous critic of the Catholic Church, an outspoken liberal but not a former communist, and a recognized authority on Nietzsche and Heidegger as well as a prominent public inte...

Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers and most famously associated with the concept of weak thought, explores theoretical and practical issues flowing from his fundamental rejection of the traditional Western understanding of Being as an absolute, unchanging, and transcendent reality. The essays in this book move within the surroundings of Being without constructing a systematic, definitive analysis of the topic.

Nicht erst seit der vielbeachteten Wahl des neuen Papstes, nicht erst seit den religiös motivierten Terroranschlägen, die die westlichen Demokratien erschüttert haben, und nicht erst seit der Wiederkehr religiöser Fundamentalismen in allen Teilen der Welt wird deutlich, daß die Frage der Religion zu einer Nagelprobe der Zivilisation geworden ist. Doch war die Religion nicht längst überwunden? Die Philosophen Richard Rorty und Gianni Vattimo, d...

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A realization of the fully transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist thought.

Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Marx's theories at a time when capitalism's metaphysical moorings--in technology, empire, and industrialization--are buckling. While Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri call for a return of the revolutionary left, Vattimo and Zabala fear t...

Il nostro tempo, sul piano sia politico sia filosofico, è segnato da una "assenza di emergenza": i1 capitalismo neoliberista e, in filosofia, la metafisica stanno tenendo imbrigliato il mondo intero. Secondo Gianni Vattimo e Santiago Zabala, esiste però un'alternativa possibile. Si tratta, rielaborando Marx e Heidegger, di ciò che qui viene definito "comunismo ermeneutico", cioè di una posizione che politicamente si avvicina alle esperienze su...

A daring marriage of philosophical theory and practical politics, this collection is the first of Gianni Vattimo's many books to combine his intellectual pursuits with his public and political life. Vattimo is a paradoxical figure, at once a believing Christian and a vociferous critic of the Catholic Church, an outspoken liberal but not a former communist, and a recognized authority on Nietzsche and Heidegger as well as a prominent public inte...

Following Heidegger's interpretation of the history of philosophy, Gianni Vattimo outlines the existential ontological conditions of aesthetics, paying particular attention to the works of Kandinsky, which reaffirm the ontological implications of art. Vattimo then builds on Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory of aesthetics and provides an alternative to a rationalistic-positivistic criticism of art. This is the heart of Vattimo's argument, and with it...