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For more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo, one of Europes most important and influential philosophers, has been a leading participant in the postwar turn that has brought Nietzsche back to the center of philosophical enquiry. In this collection ofMoreFor more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo, one of Europes most important and influential philosophers, has been a leading participant in the postwar turn that has brought Nietzsche back to the center of philosophical enquiry. In this collection of his essays on the subject, which is a dialogue both with Nietzsche and with the Nietzschean tradition, Vattimo explores the German philosophers most important works and discusses his views on the Ubermensch, time, history, truth, hermeneutics, ethics, and aesthetics. He also presents a different, more Italian Nietzsche, one that diverges from German and French characterizations. Many contemporary French and poststructuralist philosophers offer literary or aesthetic readings of Nietzsches work that downplay its political import. Shaped by the revolutionary tradition of 1968, Vattimos interpretations take Nietzsche seriously as a political philosopher and argue for and defend his relevance to projects for social and political change. He emphasizes the hermeneutic aspect of Nietzsches philosophy, characterizing the Nietzschean project as a political hermeneutics.Vattimo also grapples with Heidegger, a philosopher who has had a profound influence on the interpretation and understanding of Nietzsche. Vattimo examines Heideggers philosophy through its complex relationship to Nietzsches, and he produces a Heideggerian understanding of Nietzsche that paradoxically goes against Heideggers own readings of Nietzsches work. Heidegger believed Nietzsche was the ultimate metaphysician- Vattimo sees him as the founder of postmetaphysical philosophy.Throughout these essays, Vattimo draws on and quotes extensively from fragments in Nietzsches notebooks, many of which have never before been translated into English. His writing is clear, elegant, and accessible, and, for the first time, Vattimos own intellectual developments, shifts, and continuities can be clearly discerned. The loyal testimony and unique perspective in Dialogue with Nietzsche makes a convincing case for another orientation in Nietzsche scholarship. Dialogue with Nietzsche by Gianni Vattimo
