Belief

Name: Belief
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ISBN: 9780804739191

ISBN-10: 0804739196

ISBN-13: 9780804739191

Edition: 1999

Authors: Gianni Vattimo, Luca D'Isanto, David Webb

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In this highly personal book, one of Europe’s foremost contemporary philosophers confronts the theme of faith and religion. He argues that there is a substantial link between the history of Christian revelation and the history of nihilism, in particular as the latter appears in the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo’s philosophical specialty. Tracing the relation between his response to these two thinkers and his own life as a devout Catholic, Vattimo shows how his interpretation of Heidegger’s work and his conceptions of “weak thought” and “weak ontology” can be seen as closely linked to a rediscovery of Christianity. Vattimo speaks here in the first person—a risk that results in a…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Gianni Vattimo is a member of the European Parliament. He teaches hermeneutic philosophy at the University of Turin. His books in English include The End of Modernity, The Transparent Society, Consequences of Hermeneutics, Beyond Interpretation, and Belief.



Introduction: Luca D'Isanto


Return


Return and philosophy


Christian inheritance and nihilism


Incarnation and secularization


Beyond the violence of metaphysics


Secularization: a purified faith?


Revelation continues


Christianity and modernity


Demythification against paradox: the meaning of kenosis


Demythification of morality


Demythification of dogmas


Secularization: the limit of charity


Enlightenment rediscovered


The substance of faith


The moral question


To return where?


A reduced faith


Secularization versus tragic thought


Reason and the leap


What a pity!


Postscriptum