Weak Thought

Gianni Vattimo is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin and Member of the European Parliament. He is the author of several books on art, interpretation, and ethics, including The Adventures of Difference; The End of Modernity; and A Farewell to Truth. Pier Aldo Rovatti is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Trieste. He is the author of books on Levinas, Husserl, and Wittgenstein, as well as La filosofia puó curare? and Abitare la distanza. Peter Carravetta is Alfonse M. D'Amato Professor in Italian Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of Del Postmoderno and The Elusive Hermes.

• Introduction: What is "Weak Thought"? The Original Theses and Context of il pensiero debolePeter Carravetta1. Dialectics, Difference, Weak ThoughtGianni Vattimo2. Transformation through ExperiencePier Aldo Rovatti3. AntiphorphyryUmberto Eco4. In Praise of AppearanceGianni Carchia5. On the Ethics of Weakness, Simone Weil, and NihilismAlessandro Dal Lago6. The Aging of the "School of Suspicion"Maurizio Ferraris7. Heidegger’s Lichtung as lucus a (non) lucendoLeonardo Amoroso8. Wittgenstein and the "idly turning wheels"Diego Marconi9. When upon the snow covered village silently the Castle appears… The Narrative Tendency before the Unnaratable LandscapeGiampiero Comolli10. Franz Kafka’s Man without IdentityFilippo Costa11. Absence of Foundation and Social ProjectFranco CrespiIndex

"For the past thirty years, weak thought has been busy writing a chapter in the history of philosophy—a history to which … this book will now contribute an important paragraph." — Common Knowledge