Gianni Vattimo

Gianni Vattimo studied at University of Turin. Training under Luigi Pareyson and Hans-Georg Gadamer is recorded. Dario Buzzolan, Edoardo Camurri and Franca D'Agostini are recorded as having studied under Gianni Vattimo. The recorded working language is Italian and German. The field of work recorded is philosophy and politics. Luigi Pareyson is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Turin, Strasbourg and Brussels. Employment is recorded with University of Turin. Positions recorded include Member of the European Parliament. Distinctions recorded are Hannah Arendt Prize, Max Planck Research Award, honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos and Honorary Doctorate of University of Buenos Aires.

• Region — Western philosophy • Era — Contemporary philosophy • Name — Gianni Vattimo • Birth Name — Gianteresio Vattimo • Born — 4 January 1936 • Birthplace — Turin, Kingdom of Italy • Died — 19 September 2023 • Place of death — Turin, Italy • Education — University of Turin (laurea, 1959) • Institutions — University of Turin • School Tradition — Continental philosophy Phenomenology Hermeneutics Postmodernism • Main Interests — Ethics Political philosophy • Notable Ideas — Weak thought, hermeneutic communism • Academic Advisors — Hans-Georg Gadamer Luigi Pareyson • Notable Students — Maurizio Ferraris Gianteresio "Gianni" Vattimo (4 January 1936 – 19 September 2023) was an Italian philosopher and politician.

• Illustration — Vattimo at a pride event in Como, 1999 Born in Turin, Piedmont, Vattimo studied philosophy under Luigi Pareyson, an existentialist philosopher, at the University of Turin and graduated with a laurea in 1959. In 1963, he moved to the University of Heidelberg and studied with Karl Löwith, Jürgen Habermas, and Hans-Georg Gadamer with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.[1] Vattimo returned to Turin, where he became assistant professor in 1964 and later full professor of Aesthetics in 1969. While remaining at Turin, becoming Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in 1982, he had been a visiting professor at a number of American Universities. For his works, he received honorary degrees from the universities of La Plata, Palermo, Madrid, Havana, and Lima. Vattimo said he was exempted from military service.[2] After being active in the Radical Party, the short-lived Alleanza per Torino, and the Democrats of the Left, Vattimo joined the Party of Italian Communists. He was elected a member of the European Parliament for the first time in 1999 and for a second mandate in 2009. Vattimo was openly gay.[3] In 2010, Vattimo delivered the Gifford Lectures on The End of Reality at the University of Glasgow.[4] In the same year, he participated in the Subversive Film Festival.[5] In March 2012, he was a speaker at the national congress of the Grand Orient of Italy in Rimini.[6] Vattimo died in Turin on 19 September 2023 at the age of 87.[8]

Vattimo added his name to a petition released on 28 February 2009, calling on the European Union to remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organisations and grant it full recognition as a legitimate voice of the Palestinian people. On 22 July 2014, in response to Operation Protective Edge, a military operation on Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Vattimo said he would personally like to "shoot those bastard Zionists" and thinks Europeans should raise money "to buy Hamas some more rockets". He expressed his willingness to go to Gaza and fight side by side with Hamas and when asked if he would shoot at Israelis, he asserted, "By nature I'm non-violent, but I'd shoot at those (of them) who bomb hospitals, private clinics and children", before making comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany. Vattimo added that for him these were "pure Nazis", the state itself a Nazi state (uno Stato nazista), perhaps somewhat worse even than Adolf Hitler's because in Israel's case they have the support of the great Western democracies.[12]

Vattimo had been accused of antisemitism due to his anti-Zionism. Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, accused him of antisemitism, writing "words of hatred that don't add anything new and are accompanied by the squalid reproposal of anti-Semitic stereotypes".[13][14] Rabbi Barbara Aiello, Italy's first female rabbi, also accused Vattimo of antisemitism. Reacting to his "Zionist bastards" statements and to others like it, the foreign ministers for Italy, France, and Germany said that they condemn such language as well as the violence that occurred at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Europe.[15] Pronounced in a moment of indignation against the prolonged bombing of Gaza by the IDF, Vattimo apologised to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which reported, "In a telephone interview. Gianni Vattimo said he 'regrets' such words and 'feels ashamed' by them",[16] claiming he was "provoked" by the hosts of the show on which he made his comments.[17]

• Illustration — Vattimo in Lima, Perú, 2010 • (1991) The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture, translated by John R. Snyder, Polity Press, 1991. Translation of La fine della modernità, Garzanti, Milan, 1985 • (1992) The Transparent Society, translated by David Webb, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Translation of La società trasparente, Garzanti, Milan, 1989 • (1993) The Adventure of Difference: Philosophy after Nietzsche and Heidegger, translated by Thomas Harrison and Cyprian P. Blamires, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Translation of Le avventure della differenza, Garzanti, Milan, 1980 • (1997) Beyond Interpretation: The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy, translated by David Webb, Stanford University Press, 1997. Translation of Oltre l'interpretazione, Laterza, Rome-Bari, 1994 • (1998) Religion by Jacques Derrida, edited by Gianni Vattimo, translated by David Webb, Stanford University Press, 1998 • (1999) Belief by Gianni Vattimo, et al. Polity Press, 1999. Translation of Credere di credere, Garzanti, Milan, 1996 • (2002a) Nietzsche: Philosophy as Cultural Criticism, translated by Nicholas Martin Stanford University Press, 2002. Translation of Introduzione a Nietzsche, Laterza, Rome-Bari,1985 • (2002b) After Christianity, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. • (2004) Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics and Law, edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press, 2004 • (2005) The Future of Religion, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo, edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press, 2005 • (2006) After the Death of God, John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo, edited by Jeffrey W. Robbins, Columbia University Press. • (2008) Dialogue with Nietzsche, Gianni Vattimo, Columbia University Press. • (2008) Art's Claim to Truth, Gianni Vattimo, edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press. • (2009) Christianity, Truth, and Weak Faith, Gianni Vattimo and René Girard, edited by P. Antonello, Columbia University Press. • (2010) The Responsibility of the Philosopher, Gianni Vattimo, edited by Franca D'Agostini, Columbia University Press. • (2011) Hermeneutic Communism, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press. • (2012) Weak Thought, translated by Peter Carravetta, SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy, 2012. Translation of Il pensiero debole, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1983 • (2014) Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics, edited by Gianni Vattimo and Michael Marder, Bloomsbury.

Gianni Vattimo was recorded at birth as Gianteresio Vattimo. The authorities additionally record the heading Gian Teresio Vattimo. His recorded languages were Italian and German.

Gianni Vattimo worked in philosophy and politics. He was employed by University of Turin. Recorded position is Member of the European Parliament. He belonged to European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Academy of Sciences of Turin. He worked at Turin, Strasbourg and Brussels.

Gianni Vattimo is recorded as philosopher, university teacher, politician and writer. Gianni Vattimo is recorded with the citizenship of Kingdom of Italy and Italy.

Gianni Vattimo received Hannah Arendt Prize, Max Planck Research Award, honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos, Honorary Doctorate of University of Buenos Aires and Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

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• Marta Frascati-Lochhead. Kenosis and Feminist Theology. The Challenge of Gianni Vattimo (SUNY, 1998) • Rossano Pecoraro, Niilismo e Pós (Modernidade). Introdução ao pensamento fraco de Gianni Vattimo, Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo, PUC-Loyola ED. 2005. • Martin G. Weiss, Gianni Vattimo. Einführung. Mit einem Interview mit Gianni Vattimo, Passagen Verlag, 2. Auflage: Wien 2006. • Giovanni Giorgio, Il pensiero di Gianni Vattimo. L'emancipazione dalla metafisica tra dialettica ed ermeneutica, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2006 • Davide Monaco, Gianni Vattimo. Ontologia ermeneutica, cristianesimo e postmodernità, Ets, Pisa 2006 • Weakening Philosophy. Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, Edited by Santiago Zabala (with contributions from U. Eco, C. Taylor, R. Rorty, J-L. Nancy, F. Savater and many others), Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. • Enrico Redaelli, Il nodo dei nodi. L'esercizio del pensiero in Vattimo, Vitiello, Sini, Ets, Pisa 2008. • Wolfgang Sützl, Emancipación o Violencia. Pacifismo estético en Gianni Vattimo. Barcelona: Icaria 2007. • Ashley Woodward, Review of Weakening Philosophy. Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, Edited by Santiago Zabala", in "Colloquy" Issue 15 June 2008. • Between Nihilism and Politics. The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo. Edited by Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder. New York: Suny 2010. • Matthew Edward Harris, Essays on Gianni Vattimo: Religion, Ethics and the History of Ideas. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. • Tommaso Franci, Vattimo o del nichilismo, Roma, Armando, 2011. • Ricardo Milla, Vattimo y la hermenéutica política, en Isegoria (Madrid), 2011, julio, No 44, pp. 339–343 • Lozano Pino, Jesús, "El amor es el límite. Reflexiones sobre el cristianismo hermenéutico de G. Vattimo y sus consecuencias teológico-políticas", Madrid, Dykinson, 2015. ISBN electrónico: 978-84-9085-282-8 • Brais González Arribas, Reduciendo la violencia. La hermenéutica nihilista de Gianni Vattimo. Madrid, Dykinson, 2016. • Emilio Carlo Corriero, "Nietzsche's Death of God and Italian Philosophy". Preface by Gianni Vattimo, Rowman & Littlefield, London - New York, 2016 • Pierfrancesco Stagi, Gianni Vattimo, in Il pensiero filosofico-religioso italiano nel Novecento, edited by O. Brino and C. Belloni, "Associazione Italiana di Filosofia della Religione" (AIFR), University of Urbino, 2024.

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