Gianni Vattimo
Gianni Vattimo ( born January 4, 1936 in Turin ) is an Italian philosopher, writer and politician. He became internationally known in the 1980s as a co-founder of the weak thinking.
Biography
Vattimo studied from 1954 to 1959 in Turin Literature and Philosophy at Luigi Pareyson whose chair he took over later. He received his PhD in 1961 on Aristotle ( Il Concetto di fare in Aristotele ), 1963 and his habilitation with the topic Essere, storia e linguaggio in Heidegger. After a research fellowship in Heidelberg, where he studied with Karl Lowith and Hans- Georg Gadamer, he became in 1964 professor of aesthetics at the University of Turin. In 1982 he took over the chair of theoretical philosophy. In the 1970s and 80s he was also a visiting professor at various universities in the United States.
Gianni Vattimo is committed to the rights of same-sex partnerships. He is gay and describes himself as a Catholic, but after an interview does not believe in God.
In 1992, Vattimo together with Wolfgang Welsch the Max Planck Research Award. In 2000 he was a Fellow of the College Friedrich Nietzsche. He was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought 2002.
From 1999 to 2004 he was left Democrat member of the European Parliament. 2009 Vattimo candidate in the constituency of North West for Antonio Di Pietro's Italia dei Valori, reaching 14,951 preferential votes in fourth place. Since two of the three before him were elected in other constituencies, and these mandates assumptions, Vattimo moved again into the European Parliament.
In the fall of 2010 he was a visiting professor at the ETH Zurich and gave several lectures on the subject of ideology italiane 1950-2000.
MEPs
In the period 2009-2014 Vattimo is Deputy Chairman of the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. As he is a member of the Committee on Culture and Education and the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America. As deputy Vattimo is in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation to the ACP -EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Thinking
In his numerous works (a work directory from 2000 lists over 100 books he has written alone or with others), he deals with hermeneutical ontology and nihilism and speaks in this connection of the pensiero debole ( weak thought). A particular focus of his work is the study of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. His thinking is based simply on an anti - metaphysical - on reading these two so controversial philosopher - a "weak". Vattimo Heidegger developed following a no-longer- metaphysical, ie a "weak" concept of being. He also translated several works of Heidegger into Italian, but above all he translated Hans -Georg Gadamer's ' Truth and Method '.
Vattimo also deals with post-structuralism and deconstruction of Jacques Derrida and is the philosophical postmodernism assign.
More recently, he has multiplied facing the Karl Marx's thinking: " While Pier Aldo Rovatti has moved away from Marxism, I have approached him getting stronger. "
Works
German translations:
- Gianni Vattimo, The Transparent Society, Edited by Peter Engelmann, passages Verlag, Wien, 1992 ISBN 3-900767-94-7.
- Gianni Vattimo: Faith - philosophizing, Loeb Classical Library, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-15-009664-2.
- Gianni Vattimo, Richard Schröder, Ulrich Engel: Christianity in the Age of interpretation, Edited by Thomas Eggensperger, passages Verlag, Wien 2004, ISBN 3-85165-671-7
- Gianni Vattimo: Beyond the subject, Edited by Peter Engelmann, passages Verlag, Wien 2005, ISBN 3-85165-731-4.
- Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty: The Future of Religion, Edited by Santiago Zabala, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt aM 2006, ISBN 3-518-58458-8.
- Gianni Vattimo: Freedom and ontology of presence. Übers Diego v. D' Angelo. In: The curiosity of the lucky ones. Edited by B. Christoph Streckhardt. Publishing the Bauhaus University Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-86068-474-0.
Factory output:
- Complete Works, Meltemi Editore, Roma 2007 ff