For more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's most
important and influential philosophers, has been a leading
participant in the postwar turn that has brought Nietzsche back to
the center of philosophical enquiry. In this collection of his
essays on the subject, which is a dialogue both with Nietzsche and
with the Nietzschean tradition, Vattimo explores the German
philosopher's most important works and discusses his views on the
Ubermensch, time, history, truth, hermeneutics, ethics, and
aesthetics. He also presents a different, more "Italian" Nietzsche,
one that diverges from German and French characterizations. Many
contemporary French and poststructuralist philosophers offer
literary or aesthetic readings of Nietzsche's work that downplay
its political import. Shaped by the revolutionary tradition of
1968, Vattimo's interpretations take Nietzsche seriously as a
political philosopher and argue for and defend his relevance to
projects for social and political change. He emphasizes the
hermeneutic aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy, characterizing the
Nietzschean project as a political hermeneutics. Vattimo also
grapples with Heidegger, a philosopher who has had a profound
influence on the interpretation and understanding of Nietzsche.
Vattimo examines Heidegger's philosophy through its complex
relationship to Nietzsche's, and he produces a Heideggerian
understanding of Nietzsche that paradoxically goes against
Heidegger's own readings of Nietzsche's work. Heidegger believed
Nietzsche was the ultimate metaphysician; Vattimo sees him as the
founder of postmetaphysical philosophy. Throughout these essays,
Vattimo draws on and quotes extensively from fragments in
Nietzsche's notebooks, many of which have never before been
translated into English. His writing is clear, elegant, and
accessible, and, for the first time, Vattimo's own intellectual
developments, shifts, and continuities can be clearly discerned.
The loyal testimony and unique perspective in Dialogue with
Nietzsche makes a convincing case for another orientation in
Nietzsche scholarship.
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