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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794540103321

Autore

Vattimo Gianni <1936->

Titolo

Being and its surroundings / / Gianni Vattimo ; edited by Giuseppe Iannantuono, Alberto Martinengo, and Santiago Zabala ; translated by Corrado Federici

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, Canada : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-2280-0785-2

0-2280-0784-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages)

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Philosophy, Italian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- BEING AND ITS SURROUNDINGS -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Being and Its Surroundings: A Theological-Philosophical Breviary, Rather than a Treatise -- 1 What Need, What Metaphysics? -- 2 Philosophy and Contradiction -- 3 Wittgenstein and Historicity -- 4 Initial Paradox -- 5 The Future of Hermeneutics -- 6 The Consequences of Hermeneutics -- 7 Hermeneutics of Outrage -- 8 Hermeneutics of European Nihilism -- 9 Hermeneutics: Crossroads of the Critique of Globalization -- 10 Democracy and Hermeneutics -- 11 Emergency and Event: Technique, Politics, and the Work of Art -- 12 Democratic Fundamentalism and Dialect of Thought -- 13 Concerning Politics and Love -- 14 How to Become an Anti-Zionist -- 15 Transparent Totalitarianism -- 16 The Question of Technology Today -- 17 Passive or Reactive Nihilism -- 18 Mutual Recognition beyond Universalism -- 19 Reflections on the Dialectic of Development -- 20 The Boundaries of Art -- 21 European Religious Experience -- 22 Religion and Emancipation -- 23 Christianity without Truth -- 24 What (the Hell) Is Enlightenment? -- 25 True and False Christian Universalism -- 26 From Aesthetics to Ontology -- 27 To Interpret the World Is to Change It -- 28 Historicity and Différance -- 29 A Friendly Pragmatism -- Notes: After Heidegger -- 30 Heidegger the Theologian -- 31 Notes on Heidegger -- Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers and most famously associated with the concept of weak thought, explores theoretical and practical issues flowing from his fundamental rejection of the traditional Western understanding of Being as an absolute, unchanging, and transcendent reality. The essays in this book move within the surroundings of Being without constructing a systematic, definitive analysis of the topic.