The Future of Religion - Couverture souple

Vattimo, Gianni

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231134959 ISBN 13 : 9780231134958

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Though coming from distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious life. They urge that the rejection of metaphysical truth does not necessitate the death of religion. Instead it opens new ways of imagining what it is to be religious.

This unique collaboration fuses pragmatism (Rorty) and hermeneutics (Vattimo) and recognizes the limits of both traditional religious belief and modern secularism. Rorty discusses Vattimo's work Belief and argues that the end of metaphysics paves the way for an anti-essentialist religion. Vattimo explores the surprising congruence between Christianity and hermeneutics in light of the dissolution of metaphysical truth. In a concluding dialogue, both philosophers analyze the future of religion together with the political, social, and historical aspects that characterize our contemporary postmodern, postmetaphysical, and post-Christian world.

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À propos des auteurs

Gianni Vattimo (PhD, Philosophy, Turin) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Turin. He is the author of a large number of books, most of which have been translated into English, including Of Reality (Columbia, 2016), A farewell to Truth (Columbia, 2011), and The Responsibility of the Philosopher (Columbia, 2010). He is also known for his political activism in support of gay rights and has served as a member of the European Parliament. As a philosopher he is known for his espousal of nihilism, his rejection of truth in favor of interpretation (hermeneutics), his adoption of weak thought as a withdrawal from metaphysics, and his situational Marxism.

Santiago Zabala (PhD, Philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University) is ICREA Research Professor and Director of the Vattimo Archive at Pompeu Fabra University. He is the author of a number of books, including Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Columbia, 2017) and (with Gianni Vattimo) Hermeneutic Communism (Columbia, 2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231134959
• ISBN 13: 9780231134958
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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