The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture by Jon R. Snyder, Gianni Vattimo

The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture

Jon R. Snyder, Gianni Vattimo

256 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative medium-paced

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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 sc...

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