Vattimo, Gianni. <br/><br/>
Of Reality :  The Purposes of Philosophy. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (248 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231536578 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy, Modern.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B794.V3813 2016eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>110