Intro -- Between Nihilism and Politics -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One. Hermeneutics and Nihilism -- 1. The Experiment of Nihilism: Interpretation and Experience of Truth in Gianni Vattimo -- 2. Vattimo's Theory of Truth -- 3. Vattimo's Hermeneutics as a Practice of Freedom -- 4. Weak Thought and the Recovery of Reason -- 5. Beyond Interpretation? On Some Perplexities Following Upon Vattimo's "Turn" from Hermeneutics -- Part Two. Metaphysics and Religion -- 6. Metaphysics, Violence, and Alterity in Gianni Vattimo -- 7. Thinking the Origin,Awaiting Salvation -- 8. Postmodern Salvation: Gianni Vattimo's Philosophy of Religion -- 9. Secularization as a Post-Metaphysical Religious Vocation: Gianni Vattimo's Post-Secular Faith -- Part Three. Politics and Technology -- 10. Philosophy and Politics at the End of Metaphysics -- 11. Deciding to Bear Witness: Revolutionary Rupture and Liberal Continuity in Weak Thought -- 12. Emancipation and the Future of the Utopian: On Vattimo's Philosophy of History -- 13. "Postmodernity as the Ontological Sense of Technology"and Democratic Politics -- 14. What's Wrong with Biotechnology?Vattimo's Interpretation of Science,Technology, and the Media -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |