The Resource Not being God : a collaborative autobiography, Gianni Vattimo with Piergiorgio Paterlini ; translated by William McCuaig
Not being God : a collaborative autobiography, Gianni Vattimo with Piergiorgio Paterlini ; translated by William McCuaig
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- Summary
- With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in postwar Italy. Turin, the city in which he was born and one of the intellectual capitals of Europe (also the city in which Nietzsche went mad), forms the core of his reminiscences, enriched by fascinating vignettes of studying under Hans Georg Gadamer, teaching in the United States, serving as a public intellectual and interlocutor of Habermas and Derrida, and working within the European Parliament to unite Europe. Vattimo's status as a left-wing faculty president paradoxically made him a target of the Red Brigades in the 1970s, causing him to flee Turin for his life. Left-wing terrorism did not deter the philosopher from his quest for social progress, however, and in the 1980s, he introduced a daring formulation called "weak thought," which stripped metaphysics, science, religion, and all other absolute systems of their authority. Vattimo then became notorious for his renewed commitment to the core values of Christianity (he was trained as a Catholic intellectual) and for the Vatican's denunciation of his views. Through these interviews, Paterlini composes an utterly candid first-person portrait of a major thinker and a riveting account of homosexuality, history, politics, and philosophical invention in the twentieth century
- Language
-
- eng
- ita
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 179 pages)
- Contents
-
- 6. Plateau Rosa
- 7. Being
- 8. Epochs
- 9. The Impossible Return
- 10. Debut
- 11. On the Banks of the Neckar
- 12. "Mad, utterly desperate study"
- 13. Vampires
- 14. Paradigms
- 15. Popular Novel
- Frontmatter
- 16. Oratory
- 17. Catholic Action
- 18. Beyond the Horizon
- 19. Working- Class School
- 20. Demonic Possession
- 21. Ulcer and Mao
- 22. The Dream of a Thing
- 23. Take a King and Thrash Him
- 24. Porta Palazzo
- 25. From Heidegger to Marx
- Contents
- 26. The Movement
- 27. State of Grace
- 28. The Bicycle Left Behind
- 29. Lukács's Slippers
- 30. Forced Out
- 31. In America
- 32. The Two Boys
- 33. Death Threats
- 34. Revolutionary Moralism
- 35. Weak Thought
- Analogies
- 36. Roots
- 37. Terraces
- 38. A Safe Pair of Hands
- 39. The Volunteer for Weak Thought
- 40. The World
- 41. In History
- 42. In Human Conversation
- 43. Barbarians
- 44. Science's Positive Side
- 45. Obituaries
- 1. Incipit
- 46. Obituaries Two: Cacciari
- 47. Obituaries Three: Eco
- 48. Under a Bad Sign
- 49. With the Younger Son
- 50. The Frankfurt School
- 51. The Rich Fiancée
- 52. The Little Old Lady in New York
- 53. Almost a Mayor
- 54. The End of Prehistory?
- 55. Joachim of Fiore
- 2. Last Things
- 56. At a Certain Hour
- 57. Return to Christianity
- 58. Some Reality, Please
- 59. If Stalin Had Been a Nihilist
- 60. Evil, What a Pity
- 61. If I Weren't God
- 62. Compline
- 63. The Treasure Chest of Being
- 64. Flashes
- Envoi
- 3. Closeness
- Abbreviations
- Index
- 4. The Untied Shoelace
- 5. Rorschach Test
- Isbn
- 9780231519571
- Label
- Not being God : a collaborative autobiography
- Title
- Not being God
- Title remainder
- a collaborative autobiography
- Statement of responsibility
- Gianni Vattimo with Piergiorgio Paterlini ; translated by William McCuaig
- Subject
-
- 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
- Biography
- Electronic books
- History of Philosophy
- Italy
- PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys | Modern
- PHILOSOPHY -- Movements | Deconstruction
- Philosophers
- Philosophy
- Vattimo, Gianni
- Vattimo, Gianni, 1936-
- Vattimo, Gianni, 1936-
- Philosophers -- Italy -- Biography
- Language
-
- eng
- ita
- eng
- Summary
- With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in postwar Italy. Turin, the city in which he was born and one of the intellectual capitals of Europe (also the city in which Nietzsche went mad), forms the core of his reminiscences, enriched by fascinating vignettes of studying under Hans Georg Gadamer, teaching in the United States, serving as a public intellectual and interlocutor of Habermas and Derrida, and working within the European Parliament to unite Europe. Vattimo's status as a left-wing faculty president paradoxically made him a target of the Red Brigades in the 1970s, causing him to flee Turin for his life. Left-wing terrorism did not deter the philosopher from his quest for social progress, however, and in the 1980s, he introduced a daring formulation called "weak thought," which stripped metaphysics, science, religion, and all other absolute systems of their authority. Vattimo then became notorious for his renewed commitment to the core values of Christianity (he was trained as a Catholic intellectual) and for the Vatican's denunciation of his views. Through these interviews, Paterlini composes an utterly candid first-person portrait of a major thinker and a riveting account of homosexuality, history, politics, and philosophical invention in the twentieth century
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- CDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1936-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vattimo, Gianni
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Italian
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1954-
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Paterlini, Piergiorgio
- McCuaig, William
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vattimo, Gianni
- Vattimo, Gianni
- Vattimo, Gianni
- Philosophers
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- PHILOSOPHY
- PHILOSOPHY
- Philosophers
- Italy
- 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Label
- Not being God : a collaborative autobiography, Gianni Vattimo with Piergiorgio Paterlini ; translated by William McCuaig
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 6. Plateau Rosa
- 7. Being
- 8. Epochs
- 9. The Impossible Return
- 10. Debut
- 11. On the Banks of the Neckar
- 12. "Mad, utterly desperate study"
- 13. Vampires
- 14. Paradigms
- 15. Popular Novel
- Frontmatter
- 16. Oratory
- 17. Catholic Action
- 18. Beyond the Horizon
- 19. Working- Class School
- 20. Demonic Possession
- 21. Ulcer and Mao
- 22. The Dream of a Thing
- 23. Take a King and Thrash Him
- 24. Porta Palazzo
- 25. From Heidegger to Marx
- Contents
- 26. The Movement
- 27. State of Grace
- 28. The Bicycle Left Behind
- 29. Lukács's Slippers
- 30. Forced Out
- 31. In America
- 32. The Two Boys
- 33. Death Threats
- 34. Revolutionary Moralism
- 35. Weak Thought
- Analogies
- 36. Roots
- 37. Terraces
- 38. A Safe Pair of Hands
- 39. The Volunteer for Weak Thought
- 40. The World
- 41. In History
- 42. In Human Conversation
- 43. Barbarians
- 44. Science's Positive Side
- 45. Obituaries
- 1. Incipit
- 46. Obituaries Two: Cacciari
- 47. Obituaries Three: Eco
- 48. Under a Bad Sign
- 49. With the Younger Son
- 50. The Frankfurt School
- 51. The Rich Fiancée
- 52. The Little Old Lady in New York
- 53. Almost a Mayor
- 54. The End of Prehistory?
- 55. Joachim of Fiore
- 2. Last Things
- 56. At a Certain Hour
- 57. Return to Christianity
- 58. Some Reality, Please
- 59. If Stalin Had Been a Nihilist
- 60. Evil, What a Pity
- 61. If I Weren't God
- 62. Compline
- 63. The Treasure Chest of Being
- 64. Flashes
- Envoi
- 3. Closeness
- Abbreviations
- Index
- 4. The Untied Shoelace
- 5. Rorschach Test
- Control code
- ocn674689429
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 179 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231519571
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
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- 9786612796500
- 10.7312/vatt14720
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 279650
- 22573/cttgrzpn
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)674689429
- Label
- Not being God : a collaborative autobiography, Gianni Vattimo with Piergiorgio Paterlini ; translated by William McCuaig
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 6. Plateau Rosa
- 7. Being
- 8. Epochs
- 9. The Impossible Return
- 10. Debut
- 11. On the Banks of the Neckar
- 12. "Mad, utterly desperate study"
- 13. Vampires
- 14. Paradigms
- 15. Popular Novel
- Frontmatter
- 16. Oratory
- 17. Catholic Action
- 18. Beyond the Horizon
- 19. Working- Class School
- 20. Demonic Possession
- 21. Ulcer and Mao
- 22. The Dream of a Thing
- 23. Take a King and Thrash Him
- 24. Porta Palazzo
- 25. From Heidegger to Marx
- Contents
- 26. The Movement
- 27. State of Grace
- 28. The Bicycle Left Behind
- 29. Lukács's Slippers
- 30. Forced Out
- 31. In America
- 32. The Two Boys
- 33. Death Threats
- 34. Revolutionary Moralism
- 35. Weak Thought
- Analogies
- 36. Roots
- 37. Terraces
- 38. A Safe Pair of Hands
- 39. The Volunteer for Weak Thought
- 40. The World
- 41. In History
- 42. In Human Conversation
- 43. Barbarians
- 44. Science's Positive Side
- 45. Obituaries
- 1. Incipit
- 46. Obituaries Two: Cacciari
- 47. Obituaries Three: Eco
- 48. Under a Bad Sign
- 49. With the Younger Son
- 50. The Frankfurt School
- 51. The Rich Fiancée
- 52. The Little Old Lady in New York
- 53. Almost a Mayor
- 54. The End of Prehistory?
- 55. Joachim of Fiore
- 2. Last Things
- 56. At a Certain Hour
- 57. Return to Christianity
- 58. Some Reality, Please
- 59. If Stalin Had Been a Nihilist
- 60. Evil, What a Pity
- 61. If I Weren't God
- 62. Compline
- 63. The Treasure Chest of Being
- 64. Flashes
- Envoi
- 3. Closeness
- Abbreviations
- Index
- 4. The Untied Shoelace
- 5. Rorschach Test
- Control code
- ocn674689429
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 179 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231519571
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
-
- 9786612796500
- 10.7312/vatt14720
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 279650
- 22573/cttgrzpn
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)674689429
Subject
- 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
- Biography
- Electronic books
- History of Philosophy
- Italy
- PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys | Modern
- PHILOSOPHY -- Movements | Deconstruction
- Philosophers
- Philosophy
- Vattimo, Gianni
- Vattimo, Gianni, 1936-
- Vattimo, Gianni, 1936-
- Philosophers -- Italy -- Biography
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