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Gianni Vattimo: "Ecce Community" (2009). Review


Gianni Vattimo, Ecce Community. How you become what is was. Buenos Aires: Polity Press, 2009, 131 pp. Ricardo Milla


Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru

Ecce The book is beside Community Nihilism and Emancipation (2004) one of the political writings of the third stage of Vattimo designated or as we prefer to say the "last Vattimo. Vattimo's philosophy has gone first since his reflections on Nietzsche and Heidegger, through his original ideas such as the "pensiero debole" postmodernity to modernity, telematics, "God weak" and the kenosis (on their return to Catholic Christianity and his controversial philosophy of religion) to reach a near vattimiana philosophy political thought, we say: an attempt at political philosophy for nihilistic hermeneutics. However, it is not created by that Vattimo has been part of political practice. From a young age has had an active political life, whether Catholic groups in which it belonged or left-wing groups who played later. He began his political career in the Radical Party, then Alleanza per Torino (Olive) and until 2004 belonged the DS (Democratici di Sinistra). Now the latter has been Italiani Partito dei Comunisti . Currently serving his second term as European Parliamentary. It is therefore notable political activity of the Italian philosopher. But then, why his reflections tardy policy? And besides, why Vattimo could not reconcile their political experience to his philosophical thought, as he himself has confessed? These questions remain unanswered, we can only approach them tentatively, however, they do not bring us together now. What will then be a quick overview and summary of Ecce Community, letter in which Vattimo claims that not only can (again) to be a communist but is due, as shown and try to outline a political philosophy Debole. Try to shed light on what could be a draft policy based on hermeneutics weak thought.

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