Peter Carravetta Knihy

Though written during the past fifteen years, this collection spans over forty years in the poet's life, referencing a variety of cultural situations and emotional dimensions that carve a complex and uneven itinerary. From reflections on returning many times to his native town in Southern Italy, to political paradoxes that dot his intellectual growth in America, to thought-filled flights of the imagination, to existential questions about the motivations behind certain actions, the author constantly tempts the limit of his, and our, sensibility when confronted with a host of often inexplicable situations. The search through these "lives" calls for the employ of various registers and styles, from minimalism to a long prosaic line, while the lexicon accepts the colloquial and the refined. The collection slowly evolves toward a disenchanted horizon which requires the author often to retrieve mythological symbols. Finally, in the last section, he invents his own character to rehabilitate the civic poem through a blatantly political scouring of our most recent social reality

« Heralding the beginning of the philosophical dialogue on the concept for which Gianni Vattimo would become best known (and coining its name), this groundbreaking 1983 collection includes foundational essays by Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti, along with original contributions by nine other Italian philosophers influenced by and working within the authors' framework. Dissatisfied with the responses to nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy offered by Marxism, deconstruction, and poststructuralism, Vattimo found in the nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche an important context within which to take up the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The idea of weak thought sketched by Vattimo and Rovatti emphasizes a way of understanding the role of philosophy based on language, interpretation, and limits rather than on metaphysical and epistemological certainties—without falling into relativism. To the first English-language edition of this volume, translator Peter Carravetta adds an extensive critical introduction, providing an overview of weak thought and taking stock of its philosophical trajectory over more than a quarter century. »--Page 4 de la couverture

Engaging with post- and trans-humanist critiques, the book explores key concepts such as free will, judgment, and visions of an ideal society through historical figures like Dante and Vico. It offers compelling existential, ethical, and sociopolitical perspectives, applying them to contemporary societal issues.