Product Description: A resolute defense of philosophy and hermeneutics against the threats of dogmatism and relativism. Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991) was one of the most important Italian philosophers to emerge after World War II and stands shoulder to shoulder with fellow hermeneutic thinkers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur...read more

Product Description: Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.br>Heralding the beginning of the philosophical dialogue on the concept for which Gianni Vattimo would become best known (and coining its name), this groundbreaking 1983 collection includes foundational essays by Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti, along with original contributions by nine other Italian philosophers influenced by and working within the authors’ framework...read more

Over the course of his career, Gianni Vattimo has assumed a number of public and private identities and has pursued multiple intellectual paths. He seems to embody several contradictions, at once defending and questioning religion and critiquing and serving the state. Yet the diversity of his life and thought form the very essence of, as he sees it, the vocation and responsibility of the philosopher. In a world that desires quantifiable results and ideological expediency, the philosopher becomes the vital interpreter of the endlessly complex.As he outlines his ideas about the philosopher's role, Vattimo builds an important companion to his life's work. He confronts questions of science, religion, logic, literature, and truth, and passionately defends the power of hermeneutics to engage with life's conundrums. Vattimo conjures a clear vision of philosophy as something separate from the sciences and the humanities but also intimately connected to their processes, and he explicates a conception of truth that emphasizes fidelity and participation through dialogue.

Product Description: La muerte de Dios y la secularización han abierto, paradójicamente, un nuevo espacio para la religión. Un espacio, por un lado, invadido inmediatamente por neointegrismos y neo-misticismos de masas, pero, por otro, recorrido también por un cristianismo renovado, liberado por fin de hipotecas metafísicas y fundamentalistas...read more

Product Description: Este texto, un verdadero prodigio de condensación y claridad, presenta los aspectos más importantes de la vasta obra y, sobre todo, de la evolución del pensamiento de Martin Heidegger, desde su primer enfrentamiento con la filosofía académica de principios de siglo hasta sus reflexiones sobre el arte, el lenguaje y la técnica...read more

Product Description: This book is both a concise and lucid introduction to Nietzsche and an original contribution to critical debates concerning Nietzsche interpretation and reception. This overview takes issue with the prevailing tendency to focus on Nietzsche's later work, which reaches its extreme with Heidegger's almost exclusive focus on the group of late notes posthumously collected as The Will to Power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: ¿Es verdad que la filosofía, después de Nietzsche, ha de convertirse en una actividad meramente estética, en la medida en que la disolución de la metafísica y de la idea misma de fundamento sólo puede dar lugar a una conclusión de este tipo? No es posible afrontar la obra de Nietzsche manteniendo una actitud exclusivamente filológica, limitándose a una pura y simple actividad de aclaración, exposición y reconstrucción "objetiva" de su pensamiento...read more

Product Description: El ocaso de los grandes sistemas metafísicos, con sus pretensiones de ofrecer aún fundamentos últimos e invariables, ha abierto un proceso de secularización definitiva de la filosofía que comenzó con Nietzsche y Heidegger y que se radicalizó aún más por los desastres históricos del siglo xx...read more