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The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-Modern Culture Paperback - 1991

by Gianni Vattimo


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Now available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post-modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger and shows how their bitter criticisms of modern European thought prepared the way for more recent proclamations of the end of the modern era.

Vattimo pursues questions central to aesthetics and hermeneutic philosophy and sides with contemporary philosophers such as Gadamer and Rorty in rejecting the search for stable and transcendent foundations for knowledge. Going beyond their work he introduces the notions of 'weak thought' and 'weak ontology' which, he argues, offer a way of 'going beyond' metaphysics by curing philosophy of the modernist disease and by resituating questions of truth and being within the realm of human experience.

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  • Title The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-Modern Culture
  • Author Gianni Vattimo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, United Kingdom
  • Date 1991
  • ISBN 9780745609713 / 0745609716
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.41 x 5.38 x 0.75 in (21.36 x 13.67 x 1.91 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 190

About the author

Gianni Vattimo is an Italian philosopher and university professor who served in the European Parliament. He taught at the University of Turin. Vattimo edited the Journal of Aesthetics and has contributed to many international magazines. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin. He has received honorary degrees from several universities and was awarded the Official Great Merit of the Italian Republic in 1997. Most of his books are in English translation.

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