Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy

Drawing on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo develops in this volume a philosophy to combat the newest enemy of freedom and democracy: complacency toward reality. It is no accident, Vattimo argues, that the call to embrace reality has emerged at a time when the inequalities of liberal capitalism are...

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1. Verfasser: Vattimo, Gianni 1936-2023 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Valgenti, Robert T. 1971- (ÜbersetzerIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Columbia University Press [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:Drawing on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo develops in this volume a philosophy to combat the newest enemy of freedom and democracy: complacency toward reality. 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. Truth is therefore never objective, and resistance to reality becomes our best hope for countering the ongoing indifference to our fate
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ISBN:9780231536578

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