The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture

By (author): "Jon R. Snyder, Gianni Vattimo"

Genres:Nonfiction books Philosophy books Theory books

Publish Date: February 1st 1986

The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture

ISBN0801843170

ISBN139780801843174

AsinThe End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture

Original titleLa fine della modernità. Nichilismo ed ermeneutica nella cultura post-moderna

Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism, Vattimo follows these trends in aesthetic and scientific theory from Benjamin to Bloch, Ricoeur, and Kuhn.