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Chargement... Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography (2006)par Gianni Vattimo, Piergiorgio Patterlini
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Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Vattimo reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in postwar Italy. Turin, the city where he was born and one of the intellectual capitals of Europe (also the city in which Nietzsche went mad), forms the core of his reminiscences, enhanced by fascinating vignettes of studying under Hans Georg Gadamer, teaching in the United States, serving as a public intellectual and interlocutor of Habermas and Derrida, and working within the European Parliament to unite Europe. Vattimo's status as a left-wing faculty president paradoxically made him a target of the Red Brigades in the 1970's, causing him to flee Turin for his life. Left-wing terrorism did not deter the philosopher from his quest for social progress, however, and in the 1980's, he introduced a daring formulation called "weak thought," which stripped metaphysics, science, religion, and all other absolute systems of their authority. Vattimo then became notorious both for his renewed commitment to the core values of Christianity (he was trained as a Catholic intellectual) and for the Vatican's denunciation of his views. Paterlini weaves his interviews with Vattimo into an utterly candid first-person portrait, creating a riveting text that is destined to become one of the most compelling accounts of homosexuality, history, politics, and philosophical invention in the twentieth century. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Like any autobiography, this book is highly apologetic and also illustrates the petty-human, vain aspects of Vattimo. But he is not afraid to also talk about the uncertainties in his very erratic life course, even about rather intimate matters; for example his personal struggle with his homosexuality is openly discussed.
On the basis of this book it is perfectly possible to reconstruct an intellectual biography of Vattimo: his proletarian origin and the militant Catholic commitment in his youth and years of study, in the 1950s; his steep academic career as a philosopher, coupled with a strong left-wing commitment, ranging from Maoism to classical communism to libertarian anarchism. As mentioned in "Belief", the postmodernism of René Girard in particular brought him back into Christian water, although that seems more like a return to the warm security of his former environment. Not only philosophical musings (his concept of "soft thinking"), but also the loss of some loved ones played a role in this.
And that brings us to the vulnerable Vattimo, who, with his postmodern relativism, has a keen eye for the uncertainties of existence and an aversion to scientism and fundamentalism (both religious and rationalistic). In this way, this book provides a good view of the fragile existence of a man who, despite his very public role (also in politics), consciously opted for "not being God". (