The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture
Gianni Vattimo
256 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0801843170
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Language: English
Publish: 686300400000
Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism, Vattimo follows these trends in aesthetic and scientific theory from Benjamin to Bloch, Ricoeur, and Kuhn.