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Of Reality : : The Purposes of Philosophy / / Gianni Vattimo.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Vattimo, Gianni,
TeilnehmendeR:
Valgenti, Robert T.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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