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.
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.
Not being God Vattimo, Gianni; Paterlini, Piergiorgio
2010., 2009, 2009-07-06
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Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being ...finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Vattimo reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in postwar Italy. Turin, the city where he was born and one of the intellectual capitals of Europe (also the city in which Nietzsche went mad), forms the core of his reminiscences, enhanced by fascinating vignettes of studying under Hans Georg Gadamer, teaching in the United States, serving as a public intellectual and interlocutor of Habermas and Derrida, and working within the European Parliament to unite Europe. Vattimo's status as a left-wing faculty president paradoxically made him a target of the Red Brigades in the 1970s, causing him to flee Turin for his life. Left-wing terrorism did not deter the philosopher from his quest for social progress, however, and in the 1980s, he introduced a daring formulation called "weak thought," which stripped metaphysics, science, religion, and all other absolute systems of their authority. Vattimo then became notorious both for his renewed commitment to the core values of Christianity (he was trained as a Catholic intellectual) and for the Vatican's denunciation of his views. Paterlini weaves his interviews with Vattimo into an utterly candid first-person portrait, creating a riveting text that is destined to become one of the most compelling accounts of homosexuality, history, politics, and philosophical invention in the twentieth century.
This essay joins the contemporary debate over the proper theological and philosophical hermeneutic for interpreting the phenomenon of secularism. The first part offers a sustained ...Balthasar‐influenced critique of Gianni Vattimo's secular translation of Christianity. I argue that Vattimo's Heideggerian‐Hegelian influenced reading of secularism as Christianity's proper telos is both philosophically and theologically problematic. Part Two of this article reads Balthasar's work as a response to the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Vattimo's thought. Balthasar would argue that it is in a more traditional, yet remarkably daring account of the Trinitarian relations that the “secular” finds both its ground and dignity.
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