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′An important contribution to the current philosophical debate about ... ′The Post–Modern Condition′.′ Times Higher Education Supplement
′In the last few years, Gianni Vattimo has emerged as the leading Italian philosopher of post–modernism. His book The End of Modernity is a splendid contribution to modern philosophy ... There is no doubt that it will be one of the classics of the decade.′ David Wood, University of Warwick
′Vattimo′s is a most welcome philosophical contribution to a debate that all too often fails to acknowledge its historical dimension.′ Comparative Literature
′Vattimo is a leading interpreter of Heidegger and a cultural critic of extraordinary scope and originality. The End of Modernity is a major contribution to the current debate over post–modernism.′ Hayden White
′Vattimo has a lively mind, eclectic tastes, and a flair for making theoretical philosophical discourse interesting and arresting.′ Choice
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Now available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post–modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger and shows how their bitter criticisms of modern European thought prepared the way for more recent proclamations of the end of the modern era.
Vattimo pursues questions central to aesthetics and hermeneutic philosophy and sides with contemporary philosophers such as Gadamer and Rorty in rejecting the search for stable and transcendent foundations for knowledge. Going beyond their work he introduces the notions of ′weak thought′ and ′weak ontology′ which, he argues, offer a way of ′going beyond′ metaphysics by curing philosophy of the modernist disease and by resituating questions of truth and being within the realm of human experience.
Vattimo pursues questions central to aesthetics and hermeneutic philosophy and sides with contemporary philosophers such as Gadamer and Rorty in rejecting the search for stable and transcendent foundations for knowledge. Going beyond their work he introduces the notions of ′weak thought′ and ′weak ontology′ which, he argues, offer a way of ′going beyond′ metaphysics by curing philosophy of the modernist disease and by resituating questions of truth and being within the realm of human experience.
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This book is a study of the relationship that links the conclusions reached by Nietzsche and Heidegger in their respective works (to which I shall constantly refer) to more recent discourses on the end of the modern era and on post-modernity. Read the first page
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