Dialogo con Nietzsche. Saggi 1961-2000

by Gianni Vattimo

For more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo 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.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936) is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.

His philosophy can be characterized as postmodern with his emphasis on "pensiero debole" (weak thought). This requires that the foundational certainties of modernity with its emphasis on objective truth founded in a rational unitary subject be relinquished for a more multi-faceted conception closer to that of the arts.

Reviews

[Michel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although his essays seem very dispersed and full of unnecessary repetitions and allusions about Nietzsche's well-known terms and his well-known commentators like Deleuze, Derrida or Bataille, I liked Vattimo's try to emancipate Nietzsche from the one-layered interpretations about his philosophy (like "aesthetlst Nietzsche" or "political emancipator Nietzsche") because -as Derrida's interpretation gets close to that- his destructiveness includes a search for a metaphysics which institutonalizes itself through the constant de-construction but which for that end needs a political body and is aware of that need.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved his analysis of Nietzsche's Übermensch.