This book by one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers is
a concise and lucidly argued account of the meaning of hermeneutics
for philosophy today.
Vattimo argues that hermeneutics, understood in a general sense,
has had a pervasive influence on contemporary philosophy and social
thought. But its very generality is also a symptom of its malaise,
for it threatens to leave hermeneutics empty of significance and
wedded to a shallow relativism.
In response to this danger, Vattimo proposes a radicalization of
the relation of hermeneutics to its own historical roots in
modernity and a rethinking of the relation between hermeneutics and
nihilism - which involves, in Vattimo's account, a weakening of the
strong structures of being, reality, subjectivity and above all,
truth.
Vattimo develops a new interpretation of hermeneutics that
dispenses with the traditional bias toward aesthetic experience.
His radical interpretation breaks the link between hermeneutics and
metaphysical humanism, challenges the traditional opposition of the
natural and human sciences, and opens new perspectives on ethics,
art and religion.
"Beyond Interpretation "will be welcomed by students and
researchers in philosophy and social theory.
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