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Of Reality : The Purposes of Philosophy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231536578
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Of RealityDDC classification:
  • 110
LOC classification:
  • B794.V3813 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Leuven Lectures -- 1. The Nietzsche Effect -- 2. The Heidegger Effect -- 3. The Age of the World Picture -- Part II. Intermission -- 4. The Temptation of Realism -- Part III. The Gifford Lectures -- 5. Tarski and the Quotation Marks -- 6. Beyond Phenomenology -- 7. Being and Event -- 8. The Ethical Dissolution of Reality -- Part 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.
Summary: A defense of the critical faculties that keep us from settling for the status quo. Drawing on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo develops a philosophy to combat the newest enemy of freedom and democracy: complacency toward reality. Resistance to reality becomes our best hope for countering the ongoing indifference to our fate.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Leuven Lectures -- 1. The Nietzsche Effect -- 2. The Heidegger Effect -- 3. The Age of the World Picture -- Part II. Intermission -- 4. The Temptation of Realism -- Part III. The Gifford Lectures -- 5. Tarski and the Quotation Marks -- 6. Beyond Phenomenology -- 7. Being and Event -- 8. The Ethical Dissolution of Reality -- Part 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.

A defense of the critical faculties that keep us from settling for the status quo. Drawing on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo develops a philosophy to combat the newest enemy of freedom and democracy: complacency toward reality. Resistance to reality becomes our best hope for countering the ongoing indifference to our fate.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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