Gianni Vattimo (1936–2023)
Author of The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture
About the Author
Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a former member of the European Parliament. His recent Columbia University Press books include A Farewell to Truth (2011); Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx (with Santiago Zabala, 2011); The Responsibility show more of the Philosopher (2010); and Art's Claim to Truth (2008) show less
Image credit: Credit: Giovanni Dall'Orto, 1999, Como, Italy
Works by Gianni Vattimo
The Adventure of Difference: Philosophy after Nietzsche and Heidegger (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) (1980) 51 copies, 1 review
Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics (Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy) (2013) 13 copies
Estetica moderna 6 copies
La secularizacion de la filosofia / The Secularization of Philosophy: Hermeneutica Y Posmodernidad (Cla-De-Ma) (Spanish… (1998) 5 copies
Filosofia al presente: Conversazioni di Gianni Vattimo con Francesco Barone, Remo Bodei, Italo Mancini, Vittorio… (1990) 4 copies
A tentação do realismo 2 copies
Menzogna (Italian Edition) 1 copy
Introduzione all'ermeneutica di Schleiermacher: corso di estetica dell'anno accademico 1966-67 1 copy
Arte e verità nel pensiero di Martin Heidegger. Corso di Estetica dell'anno accademico 1965-66 1 copy
Gandirea slaba 1 copy
Sciascia e la mafia 1 copy
Ipotesi su Nietzsche 1 copy
Čitanka 1 copy
Penso, dunque ho paura 1 copy
Fim da Modernidade 1 copy
Associated Works
Open Letter 5.1, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Issue — Contributor — 1 copy
Conferencias presidenciales de Humanidades — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Vattimo, Gianteresio
- Other names
- Vattimo, Gianni
- Birthdate
- 1936-01-04
- Date of death
- 2023-09-19
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Italy
- Country (for map)
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Turijn, Italië
- Place of death
- Turijn, Italië
- Occupations
- Philosopher
- Awards and honors
- Premio Brancati (1987)
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Reviews
The Transparent Society (Parallax: Re-visions of… by Gianni Vattimo
Gianni Vattimo writes:
In other words, the proposition “truth does not exist” is patently meant to be a descriptive, objective truth and therefore it is patently contradictory to utter it – never mind that truth does not properly “exist” or “not exist,” but is, if anything, assertible or not assertible. What does exist is a common language in which these effects of contradiction emerge, and to take that into account is what’s important. Thus it is possible for me to affirm that truth dies like God dies. And just as the death (and birth) of God in Christianity is an aspect of God, forms part of his nature, likewise this contradictory death of truth belongs to the nature of truth.
The discourse becomes completely different. There is history, the meaning of which I must understand: I must account for why it is that today the term “truth” is used differently, and why it is in a certain sense true that “we no longer possess the truth.” The history of Being is made up of incidents, things that befall, but they are not “accidents” that can be dismissed with a wave of the hand: they are events. Truth, with its history, is one of these events, and it is difficult to imagine getting rid of it.
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In other words, the proposition “truth does not exist” is patently meant to be a descriptive, objective truth and therefore it is patently contradictory to utter it – never mind that truth does not properly “exist” or “not exist,” but is, if anything, assertible or not assertible. What does exist is a common language in which these effects of contradiction emerge, and to take that into account is what’s important. Thus it is possible for me to affirm that truth dies like God dies. And just as the death (and birth) of God in Christianity is an aspect of God, forms part of his nature, likewise this contradictory death of truth belongs to the nature of truth.
The discourse becomes completely different. There is history, the meaning of which I must understand: I must account for why it is that today the term “truth” is used differently, and why it is in a certain sense true that “we no longer possess the truth.” The history of Being is made up of incidents, things that befall, but they are not “accidents” that can be dismissed with a wave of the hand: they are events. Truth, with its history, is one of these events, and it is difficult to imagine getting rid of it.
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