Adventure of Difference

Gianni Vattimo is an Italian philosopher and university professor who served in the European Parliament. He taught at the University of Turin. Vattimo edited the Journal of Aesthetics and has contributed to many international magazines. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin. He has received honorary degrees from several universities and was awarded the Official Great Merit of the Italian Republic in 1997. Most of his books are in English translation.

• Introduction. 1. Hermeneutical Reason/Dialectical Reason.2. The Decline of the Subject and the Problem of Testimony.3. Nietzsche and Difference.4. The Will to Power as Art.5. An-denken. Thinking and the Foundation.6. The Adventure of Difference.7. Dialectic and Difference.

'Vattimo is arguably one of the most instructive interpreters of Nietzsche and Heidegger writing today.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher in Italy and a foremost exponent of hermeneutics, has also developed a remarkably striking and polemical philosophical orientation in his recent book The Adventure of Difference.' New Quest