Gianni Vattimo 
Beyond the Subject [EPUB ebook] 
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 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 showing how it is the single individual who must see and accept his/her potential and then excel and develop an inner strength and ethic. He reads Heidegger as concerned with the inevitable distortion present in every interpretation, which, when confronted and accepted, humbles us to deal with a less overarching telos or Grund, and makes us more attuned to contingency and interpersonal communication—what Vattimo calls a ‘weakened’ notion of being. These original readings of Nietzsche and Heidegger pave the way for Vattimo’s concept of weak thought and open up to a future social ethic that is less agonistic and more community oriented. This edition includes two supplementary essays from 1986 and 1988 that expand on the same themes, providing a deeper look at an important decade in the development of Vattimo’s thought.

Tabella dei contenuti

Translator’s Preface



Translator’s Introduction: The End(s) of Subjectivity and the Hermeneutic Task


Peter Carravetta



Author’s Preface: The Bottle, the Net, the Revolution, and the Tasks of Philosophy: A Dialogue with
Lotta Continua


1. Nietzsche, Beyond the Subject



2. Towards an Ontology of Decline



3. Heidegger and Poetry as Decline of Language



4. Outcomes of Hermeneutics



Appendix 1 The Crisis of Subjectivity from Nietzsche to Heidegger



Appendix 2 Hermeneutics as
Koine



Notes

References

Index of Names

Index of Terms

Circa l’autore

Gianni Vattimo is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of several books, including
The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture and
Nietzsche: An Introduction.
Peter Carravetta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including
After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture, and the translator of Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti’s coedited book
Weak Thought, also published by SUNY Press.