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Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.
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.
Contents
Introduction: What is "Weak Thought"? The Original Theses and Context of il pensiero debole
Peter Carravetta
1. Dialectics, Difference, Weak Thought
Gianni Vattimo
2. Transformation through Experience
Pier Aldo Rovatti
3. Antiphorphyry
Umberto Eco
4. In Praise of Appearance
Gianni Carchia
5. On the Ethics of Weakness, Simone Weil, and Nihilism
Alessandro Dal Lago
6. The Aging of the "School of Suspicion"
Maurizio Ferraris
7. Heidegger's Lichtung as lucus a (non) lucendo
Leonardo Amoroso
8. Wittgenstein and the "idly turning wheels"
Diego Marconi
9. When upon the snow covered village silently the Castle appears... The Narrative Tendency before the Unnaratable Landscape
Giampiero Comolli
10. Franz Kafka's Man without Identity
Filippo Costa
11. Absence of Foundation and Social Project
Franco Crespi
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