Description: Hermeneutic Communism : From Heidegger to Marx, Paperback by Vattimo, Gianni; Zabala, Santiago, ISBN 0231158033, ISBN-13 9780231158039, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall.
Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Marxs theories at a time when capitalisms metaphysical moorings—in technology, empire, and industrialization—are buckling. While Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri call for a return of the revolutionary left, Vattimo and Zabala fear this would lead only to more violence and failed political policy. Instead, they adopt an antifoundationalist stance drawn from the hermeneutic thought of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty.
Hermeneutic communism leaves aside the ideal of development and the general call for revolution; it relies on interpretation rather than truth and proves more flexible in different contexts. Hermeneutic communism motivates a resistance to capitalisms inequalities yet intervenes against violence and authoritarianism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth. Paralleling Vattimo and Zabalas well-known work on the weakening of religion, Hermeneutic Communism realizes the fully transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist thought.
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Book Title: Hermeneutic Communism : From Heidegger to Marx
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Hermeneutic Communism : from Heidegger to Marx
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, General, Political, Hermeneutics
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10 Oz
Item Length: 7 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science
Author: Gianni Vattimo, Santiago. Zabala
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
