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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- 1 Introduction: Gianni Vattimo and Weak Philosophy 14
- PART ONE: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL POWER 46
- 2 Weak Thought and the Limits of Interpretation 48
- 3 Modern Moral Rationalism 68
- 4 Which Ontology after Metaphysics? Conversations with Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty 88
- 5 The Human – Over and Over Again 98
- 6 Can the Globalized World Be in-the-World? 121
- 7 Deconstruction Is Not Enough: On Gianni Vattimo's Call for "Weak Thinking" 128
- 8 Weak Thought 2004: A Tribute to Gianni Vattimo 142
- PART TWO: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL METHODS 158
- 9 Heideggerianism and Leftist Politics 160
- 10 The Universality Claim of Hermeneutics 170
- 11 On the Continuation of Philosophy: Hermeneutics as Convalescence 195
- 12 Vattimo's Latinization of Hermeneutics: Why Did Gadamer Resist Postmodernism? 214
- 13 Looking Back on Gadamer's Hermeneutics 228
- 14 Pharmakons of Onto-theology 242
- 15 Gianni Vattimo; or rather, Hermeneutics as the Primacy of Politics 261
- PART THREE: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL BELIEFS 282
- 16 Weakening Religious Belief: Vattimo, Rorty, and the Holism of the Mental 284
- 17 Christianity as Religion and the Irreligion of the Future 308
- 18 Israel as Foundling, Jesus as Bachelor: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Fatherhood of God 315
- 19 Postmodern Disarmament 337
- 20 The Hermeneutics of Christianity and Philosophical Responsibility 359
- 21 The Rights of God in Hermeneutical Postmodernity 380
- 22 Atheism and Monotheism 398
- Conclusion: Metaphysics and Violence 411
- Bibliography 434
- Contributors 456
- Index 460
- A 460
- B 460
- C 460
- D 461
- E 461
- F 461
- G 461
- H 461
- J 462
- K 462
- L 462
- M 462
- N 463
- O 463
- P 463
- R 463
- S 463
- T 464
- V 464
- W 464
- Y 464
- Z 464