Gianni Vattimo by Thomas Jared Farmer - 9780231218917

Columbia University Press

Gianni VattimoPhilosopher, Communist, Catholic, Nihilist\nAuthor(s): Thomas Jared Farmer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231218917, 978-0231218917\nSynopsis\nGianni Vattimo [tel] was among the most significant Italian philosophers of the last fifty years. A controversial figure both at home and abroad, he sometimes described himself paradoxically as a nihilist and as a communist Catholic. Despite his provocationsand unusually for an academic philosopherhe served two terms in the European Parliament. For decades, Vattimo was at the forefront of developments in continental philosophy, spanning hermeneutics, postmodernity, and the return to religion. Drawing on the work of figures such as Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Rorty, and Kuhn, Vattimo constructed his signature concept of weak thought, a way of approaching the persistent problems of ideology, violence, and social division after the so-.