Nietzsche

Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. He is the author of Hermeneutic Communism (co-authored with S. Zabala), A Farewell to Truth; The Responsibility of the Philosopher; Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith (with R. Girard); Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography (with P. Paterlini); Art’s Claim to Truth; After the Death of God (with John D. Caputo); Dialogue with Nietzsche; The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty); Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law; and After Christianity. Gianni Vattimo, born in 1936 in Turin, is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin. He has published widely on German philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Schleiermacher and Heidegger. He edits the journal Revista de estetica.

• Part 1 From philology to philosophy: how Nietzsche is to be read; from philology to philosophy as cultural criticism. Part 2 The deconstruction of metaphysics: art and science; the self-sublimation of morality; the philosophy of morning. Part 3 The philosophy of Zarathustra; morning and noon; Nihilism, eternal recurrence, decision; redemption from time; the will to power and the fate of the subject; the will to power as art. Part 4 Chronology of Nietzsche's life and works. Part 5 History of Nietzsche's reception.