Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law

Gianni Vattimo; edited by Santiago Zabala

Foreword by Richard Rorty

Editor's Preface

Introduction

Part I. Ethics

1. Postmodernity, Technology, Ontology

2. Philosophy and the Decline of the West

3. Ethics of Provenance

4. Liberty and Peace in the Postmodern Condition

5. Ethics Without Transcendence?

6. Pain and Metaphysics

Part II. Politics

7. Philosophy, Metaphysics, Democracy

8. Hermeneutics and Democracy

9. A project for the Left

10. Socialism, in Other Words Europe

11. Globalization and the Relevance of Socialism

Part III. Law

12. Doing the Law Justice

13. An Apology for Proceduralism

14. On the Externality of Crimes and Punishments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy

Series

• European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

About the Author

Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. His books with Columbia University Press are Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue (with René Girard), Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, Art's Claim to Truth, After the Death of God, Dialogue with Nietzsche, The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty), Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and the Law, and After Christianity.Richard Rorty has taught at Wellesley, Princeton, the University of Virginia, and Stanford. With Gianni Vattimo, he is the author of The Future of Religion.Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics and The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat; editor of Art's Claim to Truth, Weakening Philosophy, and The Future of Religion; and coeditor (with Jeff Malpas) of Consequences of Hermeneutics. William McCuaig is a translator living in Toronto.

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