Gianni Vattimo

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Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936 in Turin ) is an Italian philosopher , author and politician . He became internationally known in the 1980s as a co-founder of weak thinking .

biography

Vattimo studied literature and philosophy in Turin from 1954 to 1959 with Luigi Pareyson , whose chair he later took over. He received his doctorate in 1961 on Aristotle ( Il concetto di fare in Aristotele ), followed by his habilitation in 1963 on the subject of Essere, storia e linguaggio in Heidegger . After a research grant in Heidelberg, where he studied with Karl Löwith and Hans-Georg Gadamer , he became professor of aesthetics at the University of Turin in 1964 . In 1982 he took over the chair for theoretical philosophy . In the 1970s and 80s he was also visiting professor at various universities in the USA.

Gianni Vattimo campaigns for the rights of same-sex partnerships. He is homosexual and describes himself as a Catholic, but according to an interview he does not believe in God.

In 1992 Vattimo received the Max Planck Research Award together with Wolfgang Welsch . In 2000 he was a fellow of the Friedrich Nietzsche College . In 2002 he was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought.

From 1999 to 2004 he was a left-wing democratic member of the European Parliament . In 2009 Vattimo ran for Antonio Di Pietros Italia dei Valori in the North-West constituency and reached fourth place with 14,951 preferential votes. Since two of the three candidates lying in front of him were also elected in other constituencies and accepted these mandates, Vattimo moved back into the European Parliament.

In autumn 2010 he was visiting professor at the ETH Zurich and gave several lectures on the topic of Italian ideology 1950 - 2000 .

EU parliamentarians

From 2009 to 2014, Vattimo was Deputy Chairman of the delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education and the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America. As a deputy, Vattimo was in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and in the delegation in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Think

In his numerous works (a catalog raisonné from 2000 lists over 100 books that he has written alone or with others) he deals with hermeneutic ontology and nihilism and speaks in this context of pensiero debole ( weak thinking ). A special focus of his work is dealing with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger . His thinking is simply based on an anti-metaphysical - a "weak" - reading of these two controversial philosophers. Following on from Heidegger, Vattimo developed a no-longer-metaphysical, i.e. H. a "weak" concept of being. He also translated several works by Heidegger into Italian, but above all he translated Hans-Georg Gadamer's 'Truth and Method'.

Vattimo also deals with post-structuralism and Jacques Derrida's deconstruction and can therefore be assigned to philosophical postmodernism .

In recent times he has increasingly turned to the thinking of Karl Marx: "While Pier Aldo Rovatti has moved away from Marxism, I have come closer and closer to it."

Works (selection)

German translations:

  • Beyond the subject. Nietzsche, Heidegger and Hermeneutics. Edited by Peter Engelmann. Translated by Sonja Puntscher Riekmann. Böhlau, Graz 1986, ISBN 3-205-01312-3 .
  • The transparent society. Edited by Peter Engelmann . Translated by Carolin Klein and Alma Vallazza. Passagen, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900767-94-7 .
  • Faith - Philosophize (= Reclam's Universal Library . Vol. 9664). Translated by Christiane Schultz. Reclam, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-15-009664-2 .
  • Brief history of philosophy in the 20th century. An introduction. Translated by Udo Richter. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-451-05176-1 .
  • with Richard Schröder , Ulrich Engel : Christianity in the Age of Interpretation. Edited by Thomas Eggensperger. Passagen, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85165-671-7 .
  • with Richard Rorty : The Future of Religion. Edited by Santiago Zabala. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-58458-8 .
  • Freedom and ontology of presence . Translated by Diego D'Angelo. In: B.-Christoph Streckhardt (Ed.): The curiosity of the happy. Publishing house of the Bauhaus University, Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-86068-474-0 .

Work edition:

  • Opere complete. Meltemi Editore, Roma 2007 ff.

literature

  • Gianni Carchia / Maurizio Ferraris (ed.): Interpretazione ed emancipazione: studi in onore di Gianni Vattimo . Dipartimento di ermeneutica, Torino; R. Cortina editore, Milano 1996, ISBN 88-7078-376-6
  • Ludwig Nagl (ed.): Essays on Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo, "Religion" , Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2001, ISBN 3-631-37108-X
  • Martin G. Weiss: Gianni Vattimo. Introduction. With an interview with Gianni Vattimo. Passagen Verlag, 3rd edition: Vienna 2012, ISBN 3-85165-738-1
  • Weakening Philosophy. Essays in Honor of Gianni Vattimo , Edited by Santiago Zabala, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.
  • Thorsten Gubatz: Heidegger, Gadamer and the Turin School. The twisting of metaphysics in the field of tension between belief and philosophy . Ergon, Würzburg 2009 (Part 3: Luigi Pareyson and Gianni Vattimo, pp. 229–390), ISBN 978-3-899-13711-8
  • Mario Kopić : Gianni Vattimo Čitanka / Gianni Vattimo Reader. Zagreb, Antibarbarus, 2009, ISBN 978-953-249-061-9
  • Johannes Krämmer: Gianni Vattimo: The end of metaphysics and the weak ontology . Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-8381-1667-9
  • Between Nihilism and Politics. The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo. Edited by Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder. New York: Suny 2010. ISBN 978-1-4384-3285-4
  • Tommaso Franci: Vattimo o del nichilismo. Roma, Armando, 2011
  • Thomas Eggensperger: Rubbing against religion. On Gianni Vattimo's view of Christianity and the Church , in: Zibaldone 51 (2011), 127–132.

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  2. ↑ http://www.klassik-stiftung.de/index.php?id=601
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  4. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  5. ↑ Una lettera di Gianni Vattimo , in: René Scheu: Il soggetto debole , Mimesis, Milano 2010, p. 293.

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personal data
SURNAME Vattimo, Gianni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher and politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin