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  • A Farewell to Truth

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    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, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Future of Religion

    by Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    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 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Of Reality

    The Purposes of Philosophy

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by Robert T. Valgenti ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Hermeneutic Communism

    From Heidegger to Marx

    by Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism.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 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Being and Its Surroundings

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by Corrado Federici ...
    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 ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Not Being God

    A Collaborative Autobiography

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    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 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • After the Death of God

    by Gianni Vattimo, John D. Caputo ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo engage with each other's past and present work on the subject and reflect on our transition from ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Art’s Claim to Truth

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by Luca D'Isanto ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    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 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Responsibility of the Philosopher

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • After Christianity

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by Luca D'Isanto ...
    Series series Italian Academy Lectures
    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 ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Beyond the Subject

    Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Hermeneutics

    by Gianni Vattimo, Peter Carravetta ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    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 ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

    A Dialogue

    by Gianni Vattimo, René Girard ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives.Christianity, Truth, and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD