A Farewell to Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Farewell to Truth write by Gianni Vattimo. This book was released on 2014-05-06. A Farewell to Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective description of facts, though many have yet to acknowledge that this is changing. Gianni Vattimo explicitly engages with the important consequences for democracy of our changing conception of politics and truth, such as a growing reluctance to ground politics in science, economics, and technology. Yet in Vattimo's conception, a farewell to truth can benefit democracy, exposing the unspoken issues that underlie all objective claims. The end of absolute truth challenges the legitimacy of policies based on perceived objective necessities—protecting the free market, for example, even if it devastates certain groups or classes. Vattimo calls for a truth that is constructed with consensus and a respect for the liberty of all. By taking into account the cultural paradigms of others, a more "truthful" society—freer and more democratic—becomes possible. In this book, Vattimo continues his reinterpretation of Christianity as a religion of charity and hope, freeing society from authoritarian, metaphysical dogmatism. He also extends Nietzsche's "death of God" to the death of an authoritarian God, ushering in a new, postreligious Christianity. He connects the thought of Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and Karl Popper with surprising results and accommodates modern science more than in his previous work, reconciling its validity with an insistence that knowledge is interpretive. Vattimo's philosophy justifies Western nihilism in its capacity to dispense with absolute truths. Ranging over politics, ethics, religion, and the history of philosophy, his reflections contribute deeply to a modern reconception of God, metaphysics, and the purpose of reality.
Farewell to Reality
Farewell to Reality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Farewell to Reality write by Jim Baggott. This book was released on 2013-08-06. Farewell to Reality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist). Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. Unafraid to challenge prominent theorists, Baggott offers engaging portraits of many central figures of modern physics, including Stephen Hawking, Paul Davies, John D. Barrow, Brian Greene, and Leonard Susskind. Informed, comprehensive, and balanced, Farewell to Reality discusses the latest ideas about the nature of physical reality while clearly distinguishing between fact and fantasy, providing essential and entertaining reading for everyone interested in what we know and don’t know about the nature of the universe and reality itself.
Hermeneutic Communism
Hermeneutic Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hermeneutic Communism write by Gianni Vattimo. This book was released on 2011-10-18. Hermeneutic Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall. Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Marx's theories at a time when capitalism's metaphysical moorings—in technology, empire, and industrialization—are buckling. While Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri call for a return of the revolutionary left, Vattimo and Zabala fear this would lead only to more violence and failed political policy. Instead, they adopt an antifoundationalist stance drawn from the hermeneutic thought of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty. Hermeneutic communism leaves aside the ideal of development and the general call for revolution; it relies on interpretation rather than truth and proves more flexible in different contexts. Hermeneutic communism motivates a resistance to capitalism's inequalities yet intervenes against violence and authoritarianism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth. Paralleling Vattimo and Zabala's well-known work on the weakening of religion, Hermeneutic Communism realizes the fully transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist thought.
Falsehood Examined at the Bar of Truth; Or, a Farewell to Mr. Wm. Huntington, and Mr. Thomas Jones, of Reading: Containing Strictures on the Broken Cistern; Written by the Former, Addressed to the Rev. Mr. Ryland, Senior. And Upon Mystery Babylon, Encompassed for Utter Destruction, Written by the Latter. By Maria De Fleury
Falsehood Examined at the Bar of Truth; Or, a Farewell to Mr. Wm. Huntington, and Mr. Thomas Jones, of Reading: Containing Strictures on the Broken Cistern; Written by the Former, Addressed to the Rev. Mr. Ryland, Senior. And Upon Mystery Babylon, Encompassed for Utter Destruction, Written by the Latter. By Maria De Fleury - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Falsehood Examined at the Bar of Truth; Or, a Farewell to Mr. Wm. Huntington, and Mr. Thomas Jones, of Reading: Containing Strictures on the Broken Cistern; Written by the Former, Addressed to the Rev. Mr. Ryland, Senior. And Upon Mystery Babylon, Encompassed for Utter Destruction, Written by the Latter. By Maria De Fleury write by Maria De Fleury. This book was released on 1791. Falsehood Examined at the Bar of Truth; Or, a Farewell to Mr. Wm. Huntington, and Mr. Thomas Jones, of Reading: Containing Strictures on the Broken Cistern; Written by the Former, Addressed to the Rev. Mr. Ryland, Senior. And Upon Mystery Babylon, Encompassed for Utter Destruction, Written by the Latter. By Maria De Fleury available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Of Reality
Of Reality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Reality write by Gianni Vattimo. This book was released on 2016-03-15. Of Reality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, or objective. Reality is a construct, reflecting, among other things, our greed, biases, and tendencies toward violence. It is no accident, Vattimo argues, that the call to embrace reality has emerged at a time when the inequalities of liberal capitalism are at their most extreme. Developed from his popular Gifford Lectures, this book advances a critical approach that recovers our interpretive powers and native skepticism toward normative claims. Though he recognizes his ideas invite charges of relativism, the philosopher counters with a discussion of truth, highlighting its longstanding ties to history and social circumstance. Truth is always contingent and provisional, and reason and reasonableness are bound to historical context. Truth is therefore never objective, and resistance to reality is our best hope to defeat the indifference that threatens the scope of freedom and democracy.
