Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx - Brossura

Vattimo, Gianni; Zabala, Santiago

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ISBN 10: 0231158033 ISBN 13: 9780231158039

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall.

Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Marx's theories at a time when capitalism's metaphysical moorings--in technology, empire, and industrialization--are buckling. While Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri call for a return of the revolutionary left, Vattimo and Zabala fear this would lead only to more violence and failed political policy. Instead, they adopt an antifoundationalist stance drawn from the hermeneutic thought of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty.

Hermeneutic communism leaves aside the ideal of development and the general call for revolution; it relies on interpretation rather than truth and proves more flexible in different contexts. Hermeneutic communism motivates a resistance to capitalism's inequalities yet intervenes against violence and authoritarianism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth. Paralleling Vattimo and Zabala's well-known work on the weakening of religion,Hermeneutic Communism realizes the fully transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist thought.

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L'autore

Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. His books with Columbia University Press includeA Farewell to Truth; The Responsibility of the Philosopher; Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue (with R. Girard);Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography (with P. Paterlini); Art's Claim to Truth;After the Death of God (with John D. Caputo); Dialogue with Nietzsche;The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty); Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law; andAfter Christianity.

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics andThe Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat; editor ofArt's Claim to Truth, Weakening Philosophy, Nihilism and Emancipation, andThe Future of Religion; and coeditor (with Jeff Malpas) of Consequences of Hermeneutics.

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• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0231158033
• ISBN 13: 9780231158039
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256