Gianteresio Vattimo was born on 4 January 1936 and is an Italian philosopher and politician.
10 Facts About Gianni Vattimo
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Gianni Vattimo studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduated with a laurea in 1959.
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Gianni Vattimo was elected a member of the European Parliament first in 1999 and for a second mandate in 2009.
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Gianni Vattimo is openly gay and a nihilist who has embraced Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of God's death.
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Gianni Vattimo rejects any notion of a transcendental structure of reason or reality that would be given once and for all.
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Gianni Vattimo's answer is to insist on the nihilistic consequences of hermeneutics.
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Gianni Vattimo uses Heidegger's term Verwindung to capture this post-modern recovery from modernity.
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An ethics of communication along the lines suggested by Jurgen Habermas suffers, according to Gianni Vattimo, from finding itself in a substantially ahistorical position, while oscillating between formalism and cultural relativism.
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Gianni Vattimo added his name to a petition released on February 28,2009, calling on the European Union to remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations and grant it full recognition as a legitimate voice of the Palestinian people.
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Gianni Vattimo has been accused of anti-Semitism due to his anti-Zionism.