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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Gianni Vattimo; Jon R Snyder |
ISBN: | 0801834449 9780801834448 0745604536 9780745604534 0745609716 9780745609713 0801843170 9780801843174 |
OCLC Number: | 18069671 |
Notes: | Translation of: La fine della modernità. |
Description: | lviii, 190 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Nihilism as destiny: An apology for nihilism -- The crisis of humanism -- pt. 2. The truth of art: The death or decline of art -- The shattering of the poetic word -- Ornament/monument -- The structure of artistic revolutions -- pt. 3. The end of modernity: Hermeneutics and nihilism -- Truth and rhetoric in hermeneutic ontology -- Hermeneutics and anthropology -- Nihilism and the post-modern in philosophy. |
Series Title: | Parallax (Baltimore, Md.) |
Other Titles: | Fine della modernità. |
Responsibility: | Gianni Vattimo ; translated and with an introduction by Jon R. Snyder. |
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a An important contribution to the current philosophical debate about ... a The Post--Modern Conditiona .a Times Higher Education Supplement a In the last few years, Gianni Vattimo has emerged as the leading Italian philosopher of post--modernism. His book The End of Modernity is a splendid contribution to modern philosophy ... There is no doubt that it will be one of the classics of the decade.a David Wood, University of Warwick a Vattimoa s is a most welcome philosophical contribution to a debate that all too often fails to acknowledge its historical dimension.a Comparative Literature a Vattimo is a leading interpreter of Heidegger and a cultural critic of extraordinary scope and originality. The End of Modernity is a major contribution to the current debate over post--modernism.a Hayden White a Vattimo has a lively mind, eclectic tastes, and a flair for making theoretical philosophical discourse interesting and arresting.a Choice Read more...


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