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By Gianni Vattimo

ISBN-10: 0801846439

ISBN-13: 9780801846434

Writer: The Johns Hopkins college Press (March 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801846439
ISBN-13: 978-0801846434

In this publication, Gianni Vattimo examines the thought of "difference" in clinical wisdom and modern mass society and illustrates the significance of Nietzsche and Heidegger in either formulating the idea that and exploring its implications for present debates at the nature of modernity.

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E. in the name of the Kierkegaardian individual) should not be seen as a limitation. Rather, this is the most positive and 'prophetic' dimension of his thinking, directed towards the understanding of new and hitherto unknown characteristics of experience. Obviously, what matters here is not a demonstration of this reading of the Kehre in reference to philological and critical studies of Heidegger. This at least plausible reading serves only to suggest another important aspect of the crisis of the subject in contemporary thought.

13 Ibid. 14 UM II pp. 115, 120. 15 Cf. Truth and Method, pp. 269ff. 16 UM II p. 79. 17 UM II p. 78. 18 UM II pp. 121, 122. 19 UM II p. 115. 20 The first volume of Human, all too Human begins with an aphorism that sets out a programme for a 'historical' type of philosophizing. Note also aphorism 292, where the signifi­ cance of this return to history on Nietzsche's part is ex­ pounded in a highly suggestive manner, with hints of a kind of Nietzschean 'phenomenology of the spirit'. On this whole question, see the second section of my II soggetto e la maschera.

77. 10 For further discussion of this see my II soggetto e la maschera. Nietzsche e ii problema della liberazione, 2nd ed. , Milan, 1 979. 1 1 I n the English translation referred to in the present volume, R. J. Hollingdale renders the word as 'use', but to render it as 'usefulness' fits in better with Vattimo's argument here. ) 12 UM II p. 63; the italics are Nietzsche's. 13 Ibid. 14 UM II pp. 115, 120. 15 Cf. Truth and Method, pp. 269ff. 16 UM II p. 79. 17 UM II p. 78. 18 UM II pp. 121, 122. 19 UM II p.

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