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Klappentext Gianni Vattimo! a leading philosopher of the continental school! has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir! the voice of Vattimo as thinker! political activist! and human being is captured on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini! a prolific Italian writer and journalist! Vattimo reflects on a lifetime of politics! sexual radicalism! and philosophical exuberance in postwar Italy. Turin! the city where 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! despite fascinating vignettes of studying with Hans Georg Gadamer! teaching in the United States! serving as a public intellectual and interlocutor of Habermas and Derrida! and living as a member of the European Union. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
