Weak Thought

by Vattimo, Gianni; Rovatti, Pier Aldo; Carravetta, Peter; Carravetta, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781438444277
• ISBN10: 1438444273
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.

Author Biography

Gianni Vattimo is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin and Member of the European Parliament. He is the author of several books on art, interpretation, and ethics, including The Adventures of Difference; The End of Modernity; and A Farewell to Truth. Pier Aldo Rovatti is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Trieste. He is the author of books on Levinas, Husserl, and Wittgenstein, as well as La filosofia pu curare? and Abitare la distanza. Peter Carravetta is Alfonse M. D'Amato Professor in Italian Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of Del Postmoderno and The Elusive Hermes.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What Is "Weak Thought"? The Original Theses and Context of il pensiero debole	p. 1
Dialectics, Difference, Weak Thought	p. 39
Transformations in the Course of Experience	p. 53
Antiporphyry	p. 75
In Praise of Appearance	p. 101
On the Ethics of Weakness: Simone Weil and Nihilism	p. 111
The Aging of the "School of Suspicion"	p. 138
Heidegger's Lichtung as lucus a (non) lucendo	p. 155
Wittgenstein and the "idly turning wheels"	p. 181
"When upon the snow covered village silently the Castle appears ..." The Narrative Tendency before the Unnarratable Landscape	p. 197
Franz Kafka's Man without Identity	p. 223
Absence of Foundation and Social Project	p. 253
Index of Names	p. 269
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