Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder 
Between Nihilism and Politics [EPUB ebook] 
The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo

This is the first collection of essays in English that deals directly with the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo from a purely critical perspective, further establishing his rightful place in contemporary European philosophy. Vattimo, who first came to prominence as the translator of Gadamer’s Truth and Method into Italian, is now considered to be more than a philosopher and prolific author. As a former member of the European Parliament (1999–2004), he is also a public intellectual. This book takes up his call to advance the crucial active and affirmative engagement with thinking and society. More than just interpretations of Vattimo’s thinking, these essays are expressions of the new impetus given to hermeneutic philosophy by ‘weak thought, ‘ the term he coined for how we think now in the wake of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer. The development of Vattimo’s thinking is reflected in the organization of the volume, divided into three main parts: Hermeneutics and Nihilism, Metaphysics and Religion, and Politics and Technology.

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List of Abbreviations



Introduction


Brian Schroeder






Part One. Hermeneutics and Nihilism



1. The Experiment of Nihilism: Interpretation and Experience of Truth in Gianni Vattimo


Gaetano Chiurazzi



2. Vattimo’s Theory of Truth


Franca D’Agostini



3. Vattimo’s Hermeneutics as a Practice of Freedom


David Webb



4. Weak Thought and the Recovery of Reason


Robert T. Valgenti



5.
Beyond Interpretation? On Some Perplexities Following upon Vattimo’s “Turn” from Hermeneutics


Peter Carravetta






Part Two. Metaphysics and Religion



6. Metaphysics, Violence, and Alterity in Gianni Vattimo


Edison Higuera



7. Thinking the Origin, Awaiting Salvation


Claudio Ciancio



8. Postmodern Salvation: Gianni Vattimo’s Philosophy of Religion


Giovanna Borradori



9. Secularization as a Post-Metaphysical Religious Vocation: Gianni Vattimo’s Post-Secular Faith


Eduardo Mendieta






Part Three. Politics and Technology



10. Philosophy and Politics at the End of Metaphysics


James Risser


11. Deciding to Bear Witness: Revolutionary Rupture and Liberal Continuity in Weak Thought


Luca Bagetto



12. Emancipation and the Future of the Utopian: On Vattimo’s Philosophy of History


Silvia Benso



13. “Postmodernity as the Ontological Sense of Technology” and Democratic Politics


Erik M. Vogt



14. What’s Wrong with Biotechnology? Vattimo’s Interpretation of Science, Technology, and the Media


Martin G. Weiss





Contributors

Index

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Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author of
The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics; translator and coeditor (with Brian Schroeder) of
Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion; and cotranslator (with Brian Schroeder) of Carlo Sini’s
Ethics of Writing, all published by SUNY Press.
Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor (with Lissa Mc Cullough) of
Thinking through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, also published by SUNY Press.