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We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, w...
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Vattimo, Gianni, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Of Reality : The Purposes of Philosophy / Gianni Vattimo. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE LEUVEN LECTURES -- 1. The Nietzsche Effect -- 2. The Heidegger Effect -- 3. The Age of the World Picture -- II. INTERMISSION -- 4. The Temptation of Realism -- III. THE GIFFORD LECTURES -- 5. Tarski and the Quotation Marks -- 6. Beyond Phenomenology -- 7. Being and Event -- 8. The Ethical Dissolution of Reality -- IV. APPENDIX -- 9. Metaphysics and Violence: A Question of Method -- 10. From Heidegger to Marx: Hermeneutics as the Philosophy of Praxis -- 11. The End of Philosophy in the Age of Democracy -- 12. True and False Universalism -- 13. The Evil That Is Not, 1 -- 14. The Evil That Is Not, 2 -- 15. Weak Thought, Thought of the Weak -- 16. From Dialogue to Conflict -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, or objective. Reality is a construct, reflecting, among other things, our greed, biases, and tendencies toward violence. It is no accident, Vattimo argues, that the call to embrace reality has emerged at a time when the inequalities of liberal capitalism are at their most extreme. Developed from his popular Gifford Lectures, this book advances a critical approach that recovers our interpretive powers and native skepticism toward normative claims. Though he recognizes his ideas invite charges of relativism, the philosopher counters with a discussion of truth, highlighting its longstanding ties to history and social circumstance. Truth is always contingent and provisional, and reason and reasonableness are bound to historical context. Truth is therefore never objective, and resistance to reality is our best hope to defeat the indifference that threatens the scope of freedom and democracy. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Philosophy, Modern. PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics. bisacsh Valgenti, Robert T. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110638578 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2016 9783110485301 ZDB-23-DPH print 9780231166966 https://doi.org/10.7312/vatt16696 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231536578 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231536578/original |
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