Weak thought / edited by Gianni Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti ; translated and with an introduction by Peter Carravetta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vattimo, Gianni, 1936-2023.

Rovatti, Pier Aldo, 1942-

Carravetta, Peter.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy

Standardized Title:

Pensiero debole. English.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

vi, 271 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2012]

Summary:

Heralding the beginning of the philosophical dialogue on the concept for which Gianni Vattimo would become best known (and coining its name), this groundbreaking 1983 collection includes foundational essays by Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti, along with original contributions by nine other Italian philosophers influenced by and working within the authors' framework. Dissatisfied with the responses to nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy offered by Marxism, deconstruction, and poststructuralism, Vattimo found in the nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche an important context within which to take up the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The idea of weak thought sketched by Vattimo and Rovatti emphasizes a way of understanding the role of philosophy based on language, interpretation, and limits rather than on metaphysical and epistemological certainties-without falling into relativism. To the first English-language edition of this volume, translator Peter Carravetta adds an extensive critical introduction, providing an overview of weak thought and taking stock of its philosophical trajectory over more than a quarter century. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Dialectics, Difference, Weak Thought / Gianni Vattimo Vattimo, Gianni 39

2 Transformations in the Course of Experience / Pier Aldo Rovatti Rovatti, Pier Aldo 53

3 Antiporphyry / Umberto Eco Eco, Umberto 75

4 In Praise of Appearance / Gianni Carchia Carchia, Gianni 101

5 On the Ethics of Weakness: Simone Weil and Nihilism / Alessandro Dal Lago Lago, Alessandro Dal 111

6 The Aging of the "School of Suspicion" / Maurizio Ferraris Ferraris, Maurizio 138

7 Heidegger's Lichtung as lucus a (non) lucendo / Leonardo Amoroso Amoroso, Leonardo 155

8 Wittgenstein and the "idly turning wheels" / Diego Marconi Marconi, Diego 181

9 "When upon the snow covered village silently the Castle appears ..." The Narrative Tendency before the Unnarratable Landscape / Giampiero Comolli Comolli, Giampiero 197

10 Franz Kafka's Man without Identity / Filippo Costa Costa, Filippo 223

11 Absence of Foundation and Social Project / Franco Crespi Crespi, Franco 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438444277

1438444273

OCLC:

772525849