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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780231536578

Content: Drawing on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo develops in this volume a philosophy to combat the newest enemy of freedom and democracy: complacency toward reality. It is no accident, Vattimo argues, that the call to embrace reality has emerged at a time when the inequalities of liberal capitalism are at their most extreme. Truth is therefore never objective, and resistance to reality becomes our best hope for countering the ongoing indifference to our fate.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , I. THE LEUVEN LECTURES -- , 1. The Nietzsche Effect -- , 2. The Heidegger Effect -- , 3. The Age of the World Picture -- , II. INTERMISSION -- , 4. The Temptation of Realism -- , III. THE GIFFORD LECTURES -- , 5. Tarski and the Quotation Marks -- , 6. Beyond Phenomenology -- , 7. Being and Event -- , 8. The Ethical Dissolution of Reality -- , IV. APPENDIX -- , 9. Metaphysics and Violence: A Question of Method -- , 10. From Heidegger to Marx: Hermeneutics as the Philosophy of Praxis -- , 11. The End of Philosophy in the Age of Democracy -- , 12. True and False Universalism -- , 13. The Evil That Is Not, 1 -- , 14. The Evil That Is Not, 2 -- , 15. Weak Thought, Thought of the Weak -- , 16. From Dialogue to Conflict -- , Notes -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/vatt16696

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/vatt16696

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Format: 1 online resource (248 pages)

ISBN: 9780231536578 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Vattimo, Gianni, 1936- Of reality : the purposes of philosophy. New York, New York : Columbia University Press, c2016 ISBN 9780231166966

Language: English

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Content: 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.

Note: Translated from the Italian. , Previously issued in print: 2016.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780231166966

Language: English

URL: Columbia scholarship online