Nihilism and Emancipation by Gianni Vattimo

Nihilism and Emancipation by Gianni Vattimo

Features essays on ethics, politics, and law. This book re-evaluates the meaning, values, and the idea of freedom in Western culture.

The fluid writing and the translator's "invisible" inclusion of explanatory phrases..makes this accessible to undergraduate and lay readers, as well as of interest to scholars...Highly recommended. Library Journal

Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. His books with Columbia University Press are Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue (with Rene Girard), Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, Art's Claim to Truth, After the Death of God, Dialogue with Nietzsche, The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty), Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and the Law, and After Christianity. Richard Rorty has taught at Wellesley, Princeton, the University of Virginia, and Stanford. With Gianni Vattimo, he is the author of The Future of Religion.Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics and The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat; editor of Art's Claim to Truth, Weakening Philosophy, and The Future of Religion; and coeditor (with Jeff Malpas) of Consequences of Hermeneutics. William McCuaig is a translator living in Toronto.

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ISBN 13	9780231130837
ISBN 10	023113083X
Title	Nihilism and Emancipation
Author	Gianni Vattimo
Series	European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Year published	2007-02-27
Number of pages	160
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