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Books by Gianni Vattimo
  | | Of Reality The Purposes of Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo, Robert T. Valgenti Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16696-6, ISBN: 0-231-16696-6 "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 condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, or objective. Reality is a construct, reflecting, among other things, our greed, biases, and tendencies tow ..." |
 | | Beyond the Subject Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Hermeneutics (Suny in Contemporary Italian Philosophy) by Gianni Vattimo, Peter Carravetta Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2020 by State Univ Of New York Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-7382-6, ISBN: 1-4384-7382-6 "An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought." |
 | | Nietzsche(1st Edition) An Introduction (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Gianni Vattimo, Nicholas Martin Paperback, 281 Pages, Published 2002 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3799-9, ISBN: 0-8047-3799-1 "This book is both a concise and lucid introduction to Nietzsche and an original contribution to critical debates concerning Nietzsche interpretation and reception. This overview takes issue with the prevailing tendency to focus on Nietzsche's later work, which reaches its extreme with Heidegger's almost exclusive focus on the group of late notes posthumously collected as The Will to Power. Vattimo aims to mediate between two prominent h ..." |
 | | The Future of Religion(1st Edition) by Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty, Santiago Zabala, William Mccuaig Hardcover, 91 Pages, Published 2005 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13494-1, ISBN: 0-231-13494-0 "Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious life. They urge that the rejection of metaphysical truth does not necessitate the death of religion; instead it opens new ways of imagining ..." |
 | | Beyond Interpretation(1st Edition) The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo, David Webb Paperback, 129 Pages, Published 1997 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2994-9, ISBN: 0-8047-2994-8 "Hermeneutics has had a pervasive influence on contemporary philosophy, social and cultural theory, literary criticism, and aesthetics. It has become so widespread an instrument that its very meaning threatens to dissolve into vague generalities, empty of significance and wedded to a shallow relativism. In this book one of Europe’s foremost contemporary philosophers provides hermeneutics with a fresh relevance and a substantive account o ..." |
 | | The Future of Religion(Updated) by Professor Richard Rorty, Professor Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala, Professor Santiago Zabala, William Mccuaig, Columbia University Press Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13495-8, ISBN: 0-231-13495-9 "Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious life. They urge that the rejection of metaphysical truth does not necessitate the death of religion; instead it opens new ways of imagining ..." |
 | | Of Reality(Reprint) The Purposes of Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo, Robert T. Valgenti Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16697-3, ISBN: 0-231-16697-4 "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 condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, or objective. Reality is a construct, reflecting, among other things, our greed, biases, and tendencies tow ..." |
 | | After Christianity(1st Edition) by Gianni Vattimo, Luca D'isanto, Luca Isanto Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2002 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-10628-3, ISBN: 0-231-10628-9 "What has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche's famous announcement of the "death of God"? What is the possibility of religion, specifically Christianity, thriving in our postmodern era? In this provocative new book, Gianni Vattimo, leading Italian philosopher, politician, and framer of the European constitution, addresses these critical questions. When Vattimo was asked by a former teacher if he still believed in God, his repl ..." |
 | | Belief(1st Edition) (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Gianni Vattimo, David Webb, Luca D'isanto, Luca DâIsanto Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1999 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3919-1, ISBN: 0-8047-3919-6 "In this highly personal book, one of Europe’s foremost contemporary philosophers confronts the theme of faith and religion. He argues that there is a substantial link between the history of Christian revelation and the history of nihilism, in particular as the latter appears in the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo’s philosophical specialty. Tracing the relation between his response to these two thinkers and his own life as a dev ..." |
 | | Belief by Gianni Vattimo Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1999 by Polity Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-1955-2, ISBN: 0-7456-1955-X "In this engaging book, Gianni Vattimo explores the theme of faith and religion which underlies much of his work. In this engaging book, Gianni Vattimo explores the theme of faith and religion which underlies much of his work." |
 | | Religion(1st Edition) (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Professor Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, David Webb Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1998 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3487-5, ISBN: 0-8047-3487-9 "What should we make of the return to the sacred evidenced by the new vitality of churches, sects, and religious beliefs in many parts of the world today? What are the boundaries between the essential traits of religion and those of ethics and justice? Is there a "truth" to religion? This remarkable volume includes reflections on such questions by three of the most important philosophers of our time—Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, and H ..." |
 | | Art’s Claim to Truth (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) by Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala, Luca D'isanto Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2010 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13851-2, ISBN: 0-231-13851-2 "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 ..." |
 | | Not Being God A Collaborative Autobiography by Gianni Vattimo, Piergiorgio Paterlini, William Mccuaig, Piegiorgio Paterlini Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2009 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14720-0, ISBN: 0-231-14720-1 "Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Vattimo reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in postwar Italy. Turin, the city where he was bo ..." |
 | | The Responsibility of the Philosopher(Reprint) by Gianni Vattimo, Franca D'agostini, William Mccuaig Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2012 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15243-3, ISBN: 0-231-15243-4 "Over the course of his career, Gianni Vattimo has assumed a number of public and private identities and has pursued multiple intellectual paths. He seems to embody several contradictions, at once defending and questioning religion and critiquing and serving the state. Yet the diversity of his life and thought form the very essence of, as he sees it, the vocation and responsibility of the philosopher. In a world that desires quantifiable ..." |
 | | Dialogue with Nietzsche(1st Edition) (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Gianni Vattimo, William Mccuaig Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13240-4, ISBN: 0-231-13240-9 "For more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's most important and influential philosophers, has been a leading participant in the postwar turn that has brought Nietzsche back to the center of philosophical enquiry. In this collection of his essays on the subject, which is a dialogue both with Nietzsche and with the Nietzschean tradition, Vattimo explores the German philosopher's most important works and discusses his views o ..." |
 | | Nietzsche An Introduction (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) by Gianni Vattimo, Nicholas Martin Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-0-485-12118-6, ISBN: 0-485-12118-2 "G. Vattimo, Il soggetto e la maschera; Nietzsche e il problema della liberazione ( Milan, 1974); Ipotesi su Nietzsche (Turin, 1967); and various essays in Le avventure della di erenza (Milan, 1979) and Al di la del soggetto: Nietzsche, Heidegger e l'errneneutiea (Milan, 1981). M. Cacciari, Krisis: Saggio sulla crisi del pensiero negativo da Nietzsche a Wittgenstein (Milan, 1976); Pensiero negativo e razionalizzazione (Venice, 1977); ..." |
 | | Beyond the Subject Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Hermeneutics (SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy) by Gianni Vattimo, Peter Carravetta Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 2019 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-7381-9, ISBN: 1-4384-7381-8 "An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.In Beyond the Subject Gianni Vattimo offers a reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that shows how the premises to overcome the metaphysical Subject were already embedded in their thought. Vattimo makes a case for a Nietzsche who is not concerned with the structure and glorification of the Overman, but rather with its opposite, by sho ..." |
 | | Hermeneutic Communism(Reprint) From Heidegger to Marx (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture) by Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2014 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15803-9, ISBN: 0-231-15803-3 "Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall. Separating communism from its metaphysical fo ..." |
 | | A Farewell to Truth by Gianni Vattimo, William Mccuaig, Robert T. Valgenti Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15308-9, ISBN: 0-231-15308-2 "With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective description of facts, though many have yet to acknowledge that this is changing.Gianni Vattimo explicitly engages with the important consequences for democracy of our changing conception of politics and truth, such as a growing reluctance to ground ..." |
 | | Hermeneutic Communism From Heidegger to Marx by Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2011 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15802-2, ISBN: 0-231-15802-5 "Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall. Separating communism from its metaphysical fo ..." |
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