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The End of Modernity : Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
The End of Modernity Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture - Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Author:Gianni Vattimo 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.