Wiek interpretacji
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2013
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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The Age of Interpretation
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Gianni Vattimo, who is both a Catholic and a frequent critic of the Church, explores the surprising
congruence between Christianity and hermeneutics in light of the dissolution of metaphysical
truth. As in hermeneutics, Vatimo claims, interpretation is central to Christianity. Influenced by
hermeneutics and borrowing largely from the Nietzschean and Heideggerian heritage, the Italian
philosopher, who has been instrumental in promoting a nihilistic approach to Christianity, draws
here on Nietzsche’s writings on nihilism, which is not to be understood in a purely negative
sense. Vattimo suggests that nihilism not only expands the Christian message of charity, but also
transforms it into its endless human potential. In “The Age of Interpretation,” the author shows that
hermeneutical radicalism “reduces all reality to message,” so that the opposition between facts
and norms turns out to be misguided, for both are governed by the interpretative paradigms
through which someone (always a concrete, historically situated someone) makes sense of them.
Vattimo rejects some of the deplorable political consequences of hermeneutics and claims that
traditional hermeneutics is in collusion with various political-ideological neutralizations.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, 2013, nr 20, s. 237-246
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978-83-232-2654-3
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1644-6763