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THE END OF MODERNITY
NIHILISM AND HERMENEUTICS IN POSTMODERN CULTURE |
| By: |
Gianni Vattimo, Jon R. Snyder (Illus) |
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Paperback |
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£15.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0801843170 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780801843174 |
| Publisher: |
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 1991 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Series: |
Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Description: |
Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism, Vattimo follows these trends in aesthetic and scientific theory from Benjamin to Bloch, Ricoeur, and Kuhn. |
| Synopsis: |
Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism, Vattimo follows these trends in aesthetic and scientific theory from Benjamin to Bloch, Ricoeur, and Kuhn. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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