11 Facts About Gianni Vattimo

Gianni Vattimo studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduated with a laurea in 1959.

Gianni Vattimo was elected a member of the European Parliament first in 1999 and for a second mandate in 2009.

Gianni Vattimo died in Turin on 19 September 2023, at the age of 87.

Gianni Vattimo rejected any notion of a transcendental structure of reason or reality that would be given once and for all.

Gianni Vattimo's answer was to insist on the nihilistic consequences of hermeneutics.

Gianni Vattimo uses Heidegger's term Verwindung to capture this post-modern recovery from modernity.

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.

Gianni Vattimo added his name to a petition released on 28 February 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.

On 22 July 2014, in response to the IDF military operation on Gaza, Gianni Vattimo said he would personally like to "shoot those bastard Zionists" and thinks Europeans should raise money "to buy Hamas some more rockets".

Gianni Vattimo expressed his willingness to go to Gaza and fight side by side with Hamas and asserted, when asked if he would shoot at Israelis, that: 'By nature I'm non-violent, but I'd shoot at those who bomb hospitals, private clinics and children.

Gianni Vattimo had been accused of anti-Semitism due to his anti-Zionism.