The Political Vocation of Post-Metaphysical Hermeneutics
On Vattimo's Leftist Heideggerianism and Postmodern Socialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dimitri Ginev (0000-0002-1908-1651, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 243-264 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/crit.v11i2.243 |
| OpenAlex | W1979682161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
The paper examines the sense in which Gianni Vattimo's story of a long goodbye to modernity along with an interminable weakening of Being inaugurates a leftist philosophico-political project. The hermeneutics of "weak thought" is criticized for (a) its ambiguous concept of interpretation; (b) its way of integrating proceduralism in post-metaphysical philosophizing; and (c) the unhappy marriage it promotes between nihilism and emancipation. Finally, a philosophico-political version of hermeneutic ontology based on the idea of situated transcendence is suggested as an alternative to Vattimo's nihilistic socialism
Communism · Emancipation · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Interpretation (philosophy · Left-wing politics · Manifesto · Metaphysics · Modernity · Nihilism · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Socialism · Transcendence (philosophy · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |