Gianni Vattimo

Biographic Data

ID3586807
NAMEGianni Vattimo
GIVEN NAMESGianni
FAMILY NAMEVattimo
SIGNATUREVATTIMO G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Turin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR44
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1944
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Myth and Fate of Secularization

    Open AccessGianni Vattimo, Jon R SnyderARTICLECalifornia Italian Studies2024

    Philosophical thought about the presence of myth in the contemporary world cannot be founded upon an essential or metaphysical definition of myth. This is due in part to the fact that the dream of philosophy as a rigorous science has been definitively ausgeträumt. More specifically, though, it is due to the fact that the theme of myth itself appears to us today in an uncertain light. No satisfactory theory of myth-one that would define its nature…

  • Being and Its Surroundings

    Gianni Vattimo, Giuseppe Iannantuono et al.BOOKBeing and Its Surroundings2021

  • Etica dell'interpretazione

    Open AccessGianni VattimoBOOKEtica dell'interpretazione2020

    «Nella misura in cui l’ermeneutica si riconosce come provenienza e destino, come pensiero dell’epoca finale della metafisica e cioè del nichilismo, essa può trovare nella “negatività”, nel dileguarsi come “destino dell’essere” – il quale si dà non come presenza dell’arché ma solo come provenienza – quel principio orientativo che le permette di realizzare la propria originaria vocazione etica senza restaurare la metafisica né abbandonarsi alla fut…

  • "Weak Thought" and the Reduction of Violence

    Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala et al.ARTICLECommon Knowledge2019

    In this interview Vattimo discusses with Zabala the possibility of a nihilist philosophy of law as an alternative to the idea of justice and the violence that predictably results from it. To make this substitution would involve the redirection of humanity away from its self-understanding as progressively approaching a metaphysical truth that is eternal and toward the acceptance of an already existing "polytheism of values," where truth is a conti…

  • Beyond the Subject

    Gianni Vattimo, Peter CarravettaBOOKBeyond the Subject2019

  • Of Reality

    Gianni Vattimo, Robert T ValgentiBOOKOf Reality2016

    A defense of the critical faculties that keep us from settling for the status quo. Drawing on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo develops a philosophy to combat the newest enemy of freedom and democracy: complacency toward reality. Resistance to reality becomes our best hope for countering the ongoing indifference to our fate.

  • Of Reality

    Gianni Vattimo, Robert T ValgentiBOOKOf Reality2016

    We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, or objective. Reality is a construct, reflecting, among other things, our greed, biases, and tendencies toward violen…

  • De la realidad

    Gianni Vattimo, Antoni Martínez RiuBOOKDe la realidad2013

  • Dios: la posibilidad buena

    Gianni Vattimo, CARMELO DOTOLO et al.BOOKDios: la posibilidad buena2012

  • Comunismo hermenéutico

    Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala et al.BOOKComunismo hermenéutico2012

  • A Farewell to Truth

    Gianni VattimoBOOKA farewell to truth2011

    Foreword, by Robert T. ValgentiIntroduction1. Beyond the Myth of Objective Truth2. The Future of Religion3. The End of PhilosophyNotesBibliography

  • From Dialogue to Conflict

    Gianni VattimoARTICLETelos2011

    I am retiring, but only in a certain sense. I plan to still be in contact with students who wish to work with me through seminars and research projects. Maybe, then, it was not necessary to create a special occasion such as this to announce my retirement, and for a long time I wondered whether I should. Lately, it seems that I will be more in the spotlight by being absent than I would by being here, as they say. This ends up being a small act of …

  • A filosofia e o declínio do Ocidente

    Open AccessGianni VattimoARTICLERevista FAMECOS2008

    “O declínio do Ocidente”, de que fala o título deste ensaio, não coincide exatamente com aquilo que Spengler entendia com esse termo. Declínio do Ocidente significa, aqui, a dissolução da idéia de um significado e de uma direção unitária da história da humanidade, espécie de alicerce, na tradição moderna, do pensamento ocidental. Este considerava a sua própria civilização como o nível máximo evolutivo alcançado pela humanidade em geral e, baseado…

  • El poder y el mito de la unidad

    Open AccessGianni VattimoARTICLEECA Estudios Centroamericanos2008

    No hay resúmenes disponibles. ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 63, No. 715-716, 2008: 319-323

  • Introduction

    Gianni VattimoARTICLECommon Knowledge2007Cited by: 1

    Research Article| August 01 2007 Introduction: “SURTOUT PAS DE Zèle” Gianni Vattimo Gianni Vattimo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 214–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gianni Vattimo; Introduction: “SURTOUT PAS DE Zèle”. Common Knowledge 1 August 2007; 13 (2-3): 214–218. doi: …

  • Utopia Dispersed

    Open AccessGianni VattimoARTICLEDiogenes2006Cited by: 1

    Among the reasons for what might be called the 'utopian crisis' in post-modern culture, where the very idea of a utopia is the subject of suspicion and where its claim to perfection is held to blame for every fanatical ideology, may well be found the close, perhaps excessively close link that the utopian idea has always maintained with metaphysics. I am referring here to the notion of metaphysics as elaborated by Heidegger. Many defenders of meta…

  • Historia de una coma. Gadamer y el sentido del ser

    Open AccessGianni VattimoARTICLEENDOXA2005

    A partir de la doble posibilidad de traducir en las lenguas románicas la expresión gadameriana «Sein, das verstanden werden kann, ist Sprache» como «El ser, que puede ser comprendido, es lenguaje» o como «El ser que puede ser comprendido es lenguaje», se consideran las importantes repercusiones ontológicas que tendría una interpretación más moderada (y más habitual) de ese enunciado (la primera exhibida), o una lectura más radical y nihilista (la…

  • L'utopie dispersée

    Gianni VattimoARTICLEDiogène2005

    Si les utopies de la tradition culturelle occidentale doivent aux fondements objectifs de la métaphysique leur modèle d’ordre idéal, final et unitaire, n’ont-elles pas subi, à l’instar de la métaphysique, une dissolution dans le sens heideggérien de Verwindung ? Dans la mesure où la notion même d’unité, tout comme celle du fondement métaphysique ultime, révèle désormais sa violence et sa volonté de domination et qu’il nous intéresse au contraire …

  • Knowledge Society or Leisure Society

    Open AccessGianni VattimoARTICLEDiogenes2003

    Such is the scale of information production today that the verb 'to know' may be heretofore declined in the impersonal. A new 'subject of knowledge' - the machine - is seen as removing from homo sapiens the so far uncontested role of 'learned subject'. This calls for a rethinking of our notions of knowledge and democracy. To think of a knowledge society where every single person would be capable of knowingly taking any type of decision on communi…

  • Ethics Without Transcendence

    Gianni VattimoARTICLECommon Knowledge2003

  • After Christianity

    Gianni Vattimo, Luca d'IsantoBOOKAfter Christianity2002

    What 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, "We…

  • Société de la connaissance ou société du loisir

    Gianni VattimoARTICLEDiogène2002

  • Oltre l'interpretazione

    Gianni VattimoBOOKOltre l'interpretazione2002

  • "Weak Thought" And the Reduction of Violence

    Gianni Vattimo, Santiago ZabalaARTICLECommon Knowledge2002

    Research Article| August 01 2002 "WEAK Thought" And the Reduction of Violence: A Dialogue with Gianni Vattimo Gianni Vattimo; Gianni Vattimo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Santiago Zabala Santiago Zabala Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 452–463. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-452 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Giann…

  • Interpretation and Nihilism as the Depletion of Being

    Gianni Vattimo, Sebastian GurciulloARTICLETheory & Event2001

    Theory & Event - Volume 5, Issue 2, 2001