LEADER 04315nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910960979603321 005 20250703174257.0 010 $a9780231506502 010 $a0231506503 024 7 $a10.7312/vatt10628 035 $a(CKB)111056485384816 035 $a(EBL)952900 035 $a(OCoLC)818858249 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000099974 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11111340 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099974 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10019806 035 $a(PQKB)10509770 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC952900 035 $a(DE-B1597)459403 035 $a(OCoLC)52123513 035 $a(OCoLC)979574122 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231506502 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL952900 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10595176 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL684883 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31758939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31758939 035 $a(Perlego)775796 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485384816 100 $a20010824d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter Christianity /$fGianni Vattimo ; translated by Luca D'Isanto 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (165 p.) 225 0 $aItalian Academy Lectures 225 0$aItalian Academy lectures 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781322536019 311 08$a1322536015 311 08$a9780231106283 311 08$a0231106289 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Believing That One Believes --$t1. The God Who Is Dead --$t2. The Teachings of Joachim of Fiore --$t3. God the Ornament --$t4. History of Salvation, History of Interpretation --$t5. The West or Christianity --$t6. The Death or Transfiguration of Religion --$t7. Christianity and Cultural Conflicts in Europe --$t8. The Christian Message and the Dissolution of Metaphysics --$t9. Violence, Metaphysics, and Christianity --$t10. Heidegger and Christian Existence --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWhat has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche's famous announcement of the "death of God"? What is the possibility of religion, specifically Christianity, thriving in our postmodern era? In this provocative new book, Gianni Vattimo, leading Italian philosopher, politician, and framer of the European constitution, addresses these critical questions. When Vattimo was asked by a former teacher if he still believed in God, his reply was, "Well, I believe that I believe." This paradoxical declaration of faith serves as the foundation for a brilliant exposition on Christianity in the new millennium-an age characterized by a deep uncertainty of opinion-and a personal account of how Vattimo himself recovered his faith through Nietzsche and Heidegger. He first argues that secularization is in fact the fulfillment of the central Christian message, and prepares us for a new mode of Christianity. He then explains that Nietzsche's thesis concerns only the "moral god" and leaves room for the emergence of "new gods." Third, Vattimo claims that the postmodern condition of fragmentation, anti-Eurocentrism, and postcolonialism can be usefully understood in light of Joachim of Fiore's thesis concerning the "Spiritual Age" of history. Finally, Vattimo argues for the idea of "weak thought." Because philosophy in the postmetaphysical age can only acknowledge that "all is interpretation," that the "real" is always relative and not the hard and fast "truth" we once thought it to be, contemporary thought must recognize itself and its claims as "weak" as opposed to "strong" foundationalist claims of the metaphysical past. Vattimo concludes that these factors make it possible for religion and God to become a serious topic for philosophy again, and that philosophy should now formally engage religion. 410 0$aItalian Academy Lectures 606 $aChristianity 606 $aReligions 615 0$aChristianity. 615 0$aReligions. 676 $a230 700 $aVattimo$b Gianni$f1936-2023.$01820388 701 $aD'Isanto$b Luca$01831415 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960979603321 996 $aAfter Christianity$94403735 997 $aUNINA