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Gianni Vattimo
Bio: Gianni Vattimo is an academic researcher from University of Turin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hermeneutics & Nihilism. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 122 publications receiving 2783 citations.
Topics: Hermeneutics, Nihilism, Modernity, Postmodernism, Relativism
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: This is Vattimo at his best, which is to say, erudite, witty, engaging, and precise as discussed by the authors, which is very, very good, i.e., very good in the sense that it can correlate complex philosophical issues and arguments such as those of Heidegger or Benjamin on such topics as 'the origin of the work of art' or technology and artistic production with current social and cultural-political issues.
Abstract: "This book is of major importance to the debate on the postmodern question." -- Jean Fran?ois Lyotard."This is Vattimo at his best -- and at his best he is very, very good, which is to say, erudite, witty, engaging, and precise. I do not think anyone comes close to Vattimo in his ability to correlate complex philosophical issues and arguments, such as those of Heidegger or Benjamin on such topics as 'the origin of the work of art' or technology and artistic production, with current social and cultural-political issues." -- Hayden White.
298 citations
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: Rorty, Vattimo, and Zabala as discussed by the authors discuss Anticlericalism and Atheism without Theists or Atheists, and what is the future after metaphysics.
Abstract: Introduction. A Religion Without Theists or AtheistsSantiago Zabala1. Anticlericalism and AtheismRichard Rorty2. The Age of InterpretationGianni VattimoDialogue. What Is Religion s Future After Metaphysics?-Richard Rorty, Gianni Vattimo, and Santiago Zabala
260 citations
TL;DR: Gianni Vattimo as discussed by the authors reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger, and explores the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism.
Abstract: 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.
194 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: In this article, a plurality of circumferential recesses are provided for the inner or outer cylinder at the interface between them at portions corresponding to the portions of the noncircular opening having small pressure receiving areas.
Abstract: In a container for use in an extrusion press of the type comprising an inner cylinder having a noncircular opening and an outer cylinder applied about the inner cylinder by shrinkage fit, a plurality of circumferential recesses are provided for the inner or outer cylinder at the interface between them at portions corresponding to the portions of the noncircular opening having small pressure receiving areas. The recess has a predetermined radial depth and extends along the entire axial length of the inner and outer cylinders.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: Critical theory retains its ability to disrupt and hallenge the status quo, and elicits highly charged emotions of all types as discussed by the authors, such as fierce loyalty from its roponents, vehement hostility from its detractors.
Abstract: Some 70 years after its development in Frankfurt, Germany, critical theory retains its ability to disrupt and hallenge the status quo. In the process, it elicits highlycharged emotions of all types—fierce loyalty from its roponents, vehement hostility from its detractors. Such vibrantly polar reactions indicate at the very least that critical theory still matters. We can be against critical theory or for it, but, especially at the present historical uncture, we cannot be without it.
2,871 citations
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01 Jan 1991TL;DR: In Pursuit of the Postmodern Theories of Consumer Culture Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture Postmodernism, Cultural Change and Social Practice as discussed by the authors, postmodernism and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life Lifestyle and Consumer Culture City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles
Abstract: Preface In Pursuit of the Postmodern Theories of Consumer Culture Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture Postmodernism, Cultural Change and Social Practice Postmodernism and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life Lifestyle and Consumer Culture City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles Postmodernism, Consumer Culture and Global Disorder Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures?
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors elaborate on various key ideas about consumption and consumer from a theoretical position that they have labeled "liberatory postmodernism." By unmasking the limitations of modernism that have to do with the onerous nature of its metanarratives and narrow conventionalism, they show that postmodern developments offer alternate visions of consumption processes that have an emancipatory potential.
Abstract: In this article, we elaborate on various key ideas about consumption and consumer from a theoretical position that we have labeled "liberatory postmodernism." By unmasking the limitations of modernism that have to do with the onerous nature of its metanarratives and narrow conventionalism, we show that postmodern developments offer alternate visions of consumption processes that have an emancipatory potential. The analysis in our article begins with a discussion of the philosophical foundations of modernism and postmodernism followed by a cultural critique of modernism-exposing, for example, the modernist distinction between production and consumption and the privileging of production over consumption. We demonstrate how postmodernism is concerned with the reversing of the conditions of modernity and with a wide range of issues regarding the construction of the subject (i.e., the consumer), the role of the symbolic in consumption processes, the notion of the spectacularization of life, the creation of the hyperreal, and the cultural signification of fragmentation. We conclude the article with a proposal for an epistemology of consumption that subsumes scientific knowledge under a broader category of narrative knowledge and recognizes multivocality of consumption forms.
1,560 citations
TL;DR: Cruzando Fronteras, the timely organizing theme for the 2002 CEISAL Congress celebrated in Amsterdam on 3-6 July, sought to signal, and rethink, the ever increasing relevance of "borders" to the co...
Abstract: Cruzando Fronteras, the timely organizing theme for the 2002 CEISAL Congress celebrated in Amsterdam on 3–6 July, sought to signal, and rethink, the ever increasing relevance of ‘borders’ to the co...
567 citations