Belief

by Gianni Vattimo

Book Overview

In this highly personal book, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers confronts the theme of faith and religion. He argues that there is a substantial link between the history of Christian revelation and the history of nihilism, in particular as the latter appears in the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo's philosophical specialty. Tracing the relation between his response to these two thinkers and his own life as a devout Catholic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739196
• ISBN13: 9780804739191
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"