The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture
by Gianni Vattimo
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Now available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post-modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger and shows how their bitter criticisms of modern European thought prepared the way for more recent proclamations of the end of the modern era. Vattimo pursues questions central to aesthetics and hermeneutic philosophy and sides with contemporary philosophers such as Gadamer and Rorty in rejecting the search for show more stable and transcendent foundations for knowledge. Going beyond their work he introduces the notions of 'weak thought' and 'weak ontology' which, he argues, offer a way of 'going beyond' metaphysics by curing philosophy of the modernist disease and by resituating questions of truth and being within the realm of human experience. show lessTags
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Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a former member of the European Parliament. His recent Columbia University Press books include A Farewell to Truth (2011); Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx (with Santiago Zabala, 2011); The Responsibility of the Philosopher (2010); and Art's Claim to show more Truth (2008) show less
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- The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture
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- La fine della modernità : nichilismo ed ermeneutica nella cultura post-moderna
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- 1985
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- 190.9 — Philosophy & psychology Modern western philosophy Modern western and other noneastern philosophy Biography; Enlightenment - History By Place
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