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Ethics, Politics, & Law
Features essays on ethics, politics, and law. This book re-evaluates the meaning, values, and the idea of freedom in Western culture. A daring marriag...
Following Heidegger's interpretation of the history of philosophy, Gianni Vattimo outlines the existential ontological conditions of aesthetics, payin...
Over the course of his career, Gianni Vattimo has assumed a number of public and private identities and has pursued multiple intellectual paths. He se...
A Collaborative Autobiography
With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, reflects on a life...
With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise o...
It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be, yet a recent resurgence in faith has challenged the validity o...
Philosophy After Nietzsche and Heidegger
In this highly original book the author addresses the question of how we are to conceive of human reasoning in a situation where there are no global, ...
What has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche's famous announcement of the "death of God"? What is the possibility of religion, specifically ...
Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture
Now available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post-modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on th...
Two prominent philosophers explore the place of religion & belief in contemporary society....
The Purposes of Philosophy
We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo condem...
In this highly personal book, one of Europes foremost contemporary philosophers confronts the theme of faith and religion. He argues that there is a...
For more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's most important and influential philosophers, has been a leading participant in the postwar ...
An Introduction
This renowned introduction - already a standard text in Europe - is translated here for the first time. Vattimo uses Heideggerean and cultural-critica...
Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture
Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihi...
In The Transparent SocietyVattimo develops his own distinctive views on postmodernism and its philosophical and cultural relevance. Vattimo argues tha...
The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy
This book by one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers is a concise and lucidly argued account of the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy ...
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Hermeneutics
In Beyond the Subject Gianni Vattimo offers a reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that shows how the premises to overcome the metaphysical Subject were...
From Heidegger to Marx
Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original ...
A Dialogue
The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polar...
Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers and most famously associated with the concept of weak thought, explores theoretical...
This book is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of two photographers, friends who decided to embark together on one project. Italian pho...
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