Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Introduction Brian Schroeder Part One. Hermeneutics and Nihilism 1. The Experiment of Nihilism: Interpretation and Experience of Truth in Gianni Vattimo Gaetano Chiurazzi 2. Vattimo's Theory of Truth Franca D'Agostini 3. Vattimo's Hermeneutics as a Practice of Freedom David Webb 4. Weak Thought and the Recovery of Reason Robert T. Valgenti 5. Beyond Interpretation? On Some Perplexities Following upon Vattimo's "Turn" from Hermeneutics Peter Carravetta Part Two. Metaphysics and Religion 6. Metaphysics, Violence, and Alterity in Gianni Vattimo Edison Higuera 7. Thinking the Origin, Awaiting Salvation Claudio Ciancio 8. Postmodern Salvation: Gianni Vattimo's Philosophy of Religion Giovanna Borradori 9. Secularization as a Post-Metaphysical Religious Vocation: Gianni Vattimo's Post-Secular Faith Eduardo Mendieta Part Three. Politics and Technology 10. Philosophy and Politics at the End of Metaphysics James Risser 11. Deciding to Bear Witness: Revolutionary Rupture and Liberal Continuity in Weak Thought Luca Bagetto 12. Emancipation and the Future of the Utopian: On Vattimo's Philosophy of History Silvia Benso 13. "Postmodernity as the Ontological Sense of Technology" and Democratic Politics Erik M. Vogt 14. What's Wrong with Biotechnology? Vattimo's Interpretation of Science, Technology, and the Media Martin G. Weiss Contributors Index

About the Author

Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics; translator and coeditor (with Brian Schroeder) of Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion; and cotranslator (with Brian Schroeder) of Carlo Sini's Ethics of Writing, all published by SUNY Press. Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor (with Lissa McCullough) of Thinking through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, also published by SUNY Press.