Gianni Vattimo is one of the world's most important philosophers, yet he has received scant attention in the Englis
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Gianni Vattimo and Weak Philosophy
PART ONE: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL POWER
2 Weak Thought and the Limits of Interpretation
3 Modern Moral Rationalism
4 Which Ontology after Metaphysics? Conversations with Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty
5 The Human – Over and Over Again
6 Can the Globalized World Be in-the-World?
7 Deconstruction Is Not Enough: On Gianni Vattimo's Call for "Weak Thinking"
8 Weak Thought 2004: A Tribute to Gianni Vattimo
PART TWO: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL METHODS
9 Heideggerianism and Leftist Politics
10 The Universality Claim of Hermeneutics
11 On the Continuation of Philosophy: Hermeneutics as Convalescence
12 Vattimo's Latinization of Hermeneutics: Why Did Gadamer Resist Postmodernism?
13 Looking Back on Gadamer's Hermeneutics
14 Pharmakons of Onto-theology
15 Gianni Vattimo; or rather, Hermeneutics as the Primacy of Politics
PART THREE: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL BELIEFS
16 Weakening Religious Belief: Vattimo, Rorty, and the Holism of the Mental
17 Christianity as Religion and the Irreligion of the Future
18 Israel as Foundling, Jesus as Bachelor: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Fatherhood of God
19 Postmodern Disarmament
20 The Hermeneutics of Christianity and Philosophical Responsibility
21 The Rights of God in Hermeneutical Postmodernity
22 Atheism and Monotheism
Conclusion: Metaphysics and Violence
Bibliography
Contributors
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