LEADER 04011nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910966948003321 005 20250527171853.0 010 $a9786613300744 010 $a9781283300742 010 $a1283300745 010 $a9780231528078 010 $a0231528078 024 7 $a10.7312/vatt15802 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056042 035 $a(EBL)908886 035 $a(OCoLC)826476309 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565582 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11378606 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565582 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10533160 035 $a(PQKB)11726300 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000340792 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908886 035 $a(DE-B1597)459408 035 $a(OCoLC)979574649 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231528078 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908886 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10502223 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330074 035 $a(OCoLC)769187660 035 $a(Perlego)774506 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056042 100 $a20110303d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHermeneutic communism $efrom Heidegger to Marx /$fGianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 225 1 $aInsurrections 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780231158022 311 08$a0231158025 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-237) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Framed Democracy --$t1. Imposing Descriptions --$t2. Armed Capitalism --$tPart II. Hermeneutic Communism --$t3. Interpretation as Anarchy --$t4. Hermeneutic Communism --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aHaving lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall. Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Marx's theories at a time when capitalism's metaphysical moorings-in technology, empire, and industrialization-are buckling. While Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri call for a return of the revolutionary left, Vattimo and Zabala fear this would lead only to more violence and failed political policy. Instead, they adopt an antifoundationalist stance drawn from the hermeneutic thought of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty.Hermeneutic communism leaves aside the ideal of development and the general call for revolution; it relies on interpretation rather than truth and proves more flexible in different contexts. Hermeneutic communism motivates a resistance to capitalism's inequalities yet intervenes against violence and authoritarianism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth. Paralleling Vattimo and Zabala's well-known work on the weakening of religion, Hermeneutic Communism realizes the fully transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist thought. 410 0$aInsurrections. 606 $aCommunism$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy, Marxist 606 $aHermeneutics 615 0$aCommunism$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Marxist. 615 0$aHermeneutics. 676 $a335.401 700 $aVattimo$b Gianni$f1936-2023.$01820388 701 $aZabala$b Santiago$f1975-$0289785 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966948003321 996 $aHermeneutic communism$94382980 997 $aUNINA