Gianni vattimo biography

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Gianteresio Vattimo (4 January 1936 – 19 September 2023) was an Italian philosopher and politician.
Gianteresio Vattimo was an Italian philosopher and politician.

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Vattimo, Gianni 1936–

PERSONAL: Born January 4, 1936, in Turin, Italy; son of Raffaele (a policeman) and Rosa (Richiero) Vattimo. Education: Turin University, graduated, 1959; attended University of Heidelberg, 1962–64.

ADDRESSES: Home—Turin, Italy. Agent—c/o Associazione Democratici, Via San Pio V, 20, Turin 10125, Italy.

CAREER: University of Turin, Turin, Italy, assistant professor, 1964–69, professor of aesthetics, 1969–82, professor of theoretical philosophy, 1982–. Member of European Parliament, 1999–.

MEMBER: Academy of Science (Italy; fellow).

WRITINGS:

IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Le avventure della differenza: Che cosa significa pensare dopo Nietzsche e Heidegger (essays), Garzanti (Milan, Italy), 1980, translated by Cyprian Blamires and Thomas Harrison as The Adventure of Difference: Philosophy after Nietzsche and Heidegger, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1993.

La fine della modernita, Garzanti (Milan, Italy), 1985, translated by Jon R. Snyder as The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture, Johns Hopkin

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Gianni Vattimo

Gianteresio Vattimo was born on 4 January 1936 in Turin, Italy. A philosopher and cultural commentator, he served in the European Parliament and supported the turn of continental philosophy to a realistic view of religion, art, and sexual freedom during the 1960s. Awarded a Humboldt Foundation scholarship in 1963, he studied at Heidelberg. He was made Assistant Professor at the University of Turin the following year and Professor of Aesthetics in 1969. Appointed Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in 1982, he was also elected Member of the European Parliament in 1999 and 2009.

A participant of the 2012 Subversive Film Festival, Vattimo was also a speaker at the National Congress of the Grand Orient of Italy. He was a Member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin and awarded the Official Great Merit of the Italian Republic in 1997. Important publications include The Adventure of Difference (1980), The End of Modernity (1985), Nietzsche (1985), Art’s Claim to Truth (1985), Beyond Interpretation (1994), Emancipation (2004), After the Death of God (2006),

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Gianni Vattimo

Born

in Turin, Italy

January 04, 1936

Website

http://www.giannivattimo.it/

Genre

Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Heidegger, Richard M. Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Heidegger, Richard M. Rorty....more

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Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936) is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.

His philosophy can be characterized as postmodern with his emphasis on "pensiero debole" (weak thought). This requires that the foundational certainties of modernity with its emphasis on objective truth founded in a rational unitary subject be relinquished for a more multi-faceted conception closer to that of the arts.Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936) is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.

His philosophy can be characterized as post