عنوان

Belief /

(Number (ISBN

0804739188

(Number (ISBN

0804739196

(Number (ISBN

9780804739184

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9780804739191

Number

b706781

Title Proper

Belief /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Gianni Vattimo, translated by Luca D'Isanto and David Webb.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Stanford, Calif. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Stanford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1999.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

98 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Originally published: Credere di Credere (Garzanti Editore, 1996).

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

Return -- Return and philosophy -- Christian inheritance and nihilism -- Incarnation and secularization -- Beyond the violence of metaphysics -- Secularization: a purified faith? -- Revelation continues -- Christianity and modernity -- Demythification against paradox: the meaning of kenosis -- Demythification of morality -- Demythification of dogmas -- Secularization: the limit of charity -- Enlightenment rediscovered -- The substance of faith -- The moral quesiton -- To return where? -- A reduced faith -- Secularization versus tragic thought -- Reason and the leap -- What a pity! -- Postscriptum.

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Text of Note

"In this book, Gianni Vattimo explores the theme of faith and religion which underlies much of his work. Written in a personal, conversational style, Vattimo examines such concepts as charity, truth, dogmatism, morality and sin through the lens of his own life and his own return to Christianity." "At the center of the book is the enigma of belief. Freed by modernity from its Platonic subordination to knowledge, belief is recovered as a crucial and inevitable feature of our cultural and personal lives. "Do you believe?" Vattimo is asked. "I believe so," he replies." "Through an analysis of his own responses to the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo explores the relationship between the nihilism and his own life as a devout Catholic, leading him to conclude that secularization stems from a Christian impulse, and that nihilism too could only have emerged from a Christian culture." "This original contribution to the contemporary debate on religion will be of interest to scholars and students of theology, religious studies and philosophy."--Jacket.

General Material Designation

Credere di credere.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Belief and doubt.

Christianity.

Faith.

Christianisme-- Philosophie.

Démythologisation.

Foi.

Sécularisation.

Belief and doubt.

Christianity.

Faith.

Number

190

Number

Class number

Book number

Vattimo, Gianni,1936-

Date of Transaction

20201207215851.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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