Gianni Vattimo, who has long been a prominent postmodern European philosopher, has recently taken a more significant interest in religion. His claim is that postmodern philosophy, with its incisive ...critique of rationalist, objectifying ways of thinking, can help religion once again find a voice in a largely disinterested Europe and an often fundamentalist America. To accomplish this, Vattimo contends, religion must attend to certain contemporary philosophical themes that, he argues, are ultimately consistent with biblical intentions. To this end, Vattimo employs his theoretical insights on themes such as: the nature of modernity/postmodernity, the important of "weak" as opposed to "strong" thought, the dissolution of metaphysics; and the end of the authoritarian, moralistic God.
Dentro de las variadas temáticas que aborda la obra poética del chileno Efraín Barquero, en este trabajo se sistematiza la perspectiva metafísica al interior de un corpus de obras sugerido. A través ...de dicha mirada se advierte una realidad concebida al interior del discurso barqueriano que se configura como la mancomunión ancestral integrada por vivos y muertos, en donde estos últimos activan su participación en el texto en calidad de fantasmas o figuras espectrales. Esta reformulación prosopopéyica de la muerte, producto de una cosmovisión panteísta, rehúye los postulados de una fe trascendente y se traduce en una inmanencia que, si bien en los inicios de la obra barqueriana afecta solamente al clan de los antepasados del hablante, en su obra tardía termina asumiendo un carácter universal. Esta hipótesis de lectura, que propone una apertura epistémica de la muerte en Barquero, se obtiene como resultado de la combinación teórica de la racionalidad poética instaurada por María Zambrano y el carácter fundante que Gianni Vattimo confiere a la poesía, junto a la resemantización de la muerte que plantea Emmanuel Lévinas. Palabras clave: muerte, fantasmas, antepasados, inmanencia, panteísmo. Within the various themes addressed by the poetic work of Efraín Barquero, this article focuses on Barquero's metaphysical perspective systematized by the poet in the selected works analyzed here. This Barquerian poetic metaphysics is configured as the ancestral unification of the living and the dead, where the latter activate their presence in the texts as ghosts, or spectral figures. This prosopoeic reformulation of death, a result of a pantheistic worldview, avoids the postulation of a transcendent faith, and instead of it relies on an immanence that only affects the speaker's clan of ancestors in the early works of Barquero. In his latest works this particular situation assumes a universal dimension. The reading hypothesis, which proposes an epistemic reworking about death in Barquero, is justified as a result of the theoretical combination of poetic rationality established by María Zambrano and the founding character that Gianni Vattimo gives to poetry, together with the resemantization of the death posed by Emmanuel Lévinas. Keywords: death, ghosts, ancestors, immanence, pantheism. Recibido: 17/07/2020. Aceptado: 21/01/2021
Between Nihilism and Politics Silvia Benso, Brian Schroeder / Silvia Benso, Brian Schroeder
2010, 2010-09-29, 20100101
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This is the first collection of essays in English that deals directly with the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo from a purely critical perspective, further establishing his rightful place in contemporary ...European philosophy. Vattimo, who first came to prominence as the translator of Gadamer's Truth and Method into Italian, is now considered to be more than a philosopher and prolific author. As a former member of the European Parliament (1999–2004), he is also a public intellectual. This book takes up his call to advance the crucial active and affirmative engagement with thinking and society. More than just interpretations of Vattimo's thinking, these essays are expressions of the new impetus given to hermeneutic philosophy by "weak thought, " the term he coined for how we think now in the wake of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer. The development of Vattimo's thinking is reflected in the organization of the volume, divided into three main parts: Hermeneutics and Nihilism, Metaphysics and Religion, and Politics and Technology.
Moving away from Jacques Derrida's deconstructionism and Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, and building on his experiences as a politician, Vattimo asks if it is still possible to speak of moral ...imperatives, individual rights, and political freedom. Acknowledging the force of Nietzsche's "God is dead," Vattimo argues for a philosophy of pensiero debole or "weak thinking" that shows how moral values can exist without being guaranteed by an external authority. His secularising interpretation stresses anti-metaphysical elements and puts philosophy into a relationship with postmodern culture.
IN AN IMAGE CULTURE SUCH AS THE ONE IN WHICH THE MEDIA IS THE DECISIVE FACTOR IN THEPERCEPTION OF EVENTS, THE MENTALITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ROMANIA AND BEYOND IS SHAPED BYTHE IMPACT OF SOCIAL ...NETWORKS. THE MEANING OF THIS MODELING IS A POSITIVE ONE, BECAUSETHERE IS THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION, THE ACCEPTANCE OF DIVERSITY, THE UNDERSTANDINGOF THE GLOBALIZATION PROCESS AND THE FACT THAT THE EUROPEAN UNION IS A GUARANTOR OFFREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.
What has postmodernism got to do with Christianity? To what extent can a nihilist derive an ethic from the history of a religion? Can a western approach to secularisation be applied to Islam? These ...questions are central to this collection of essays from 2011-2015 by Matthew Edward Harris. The essays are grouped around the interrelated themes of religion, ethics and the history of ideas and constitute a critically constructive approach to the subject matter. Harris defends Vattimo against some of his more strident critics, but nevertheless poses questions of his own. Along with a new introduction, outlining Vattimo's life, thought and ideas, and a conclusion, which looks at how developments in Vattimo's views on religion have wider implications for his 'weak thought,' the volume includes nine essays on Vattimo's thought. Harris' overall argument is that Vattimo is overly reliant upon history and that there is a contradiction within his style of 'weak thought,' which is against definitive pronouncements yet excludes outright anything that does not pertain to the history of linguistic messages.
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