Gianni Vattimo
Complete Works

Meltemi Editore is starting a major and demanding editorial enterprise: the publicaton of Gianni Vattimo’s Complete Works.
Born at Turin in 1936 Vattimo, disciple of Pareyson and Gadamer, is one of the best contemporary thinkers who combined philosophical commitment with social and political activity. Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004, his works have been translated in eightheen languages and diffused worldwide. Vattimo’s intellectual path is aimed at devising a contemporary hermeneutic ontology supporting the “weak tought” against the ideological “strong thoughts” typical of the philosophical systems. Vattimo’s philosophy is therefore an aanswer to the crisis of the great currents of nineteenth and twentieth centuries: hegelism, marxism, pnenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism. According to Vattimo there are no indisputabile grounds, and the weak thought is an attitude of postmodernity which accepts the burden of “error” and all that is historical and human: the notion of truth, finally shaped through an human mould (and not vice versa) is then revealed in its creative aspect as play and rethoric. The eleven volumes of the Works are divided in several books. The collection is opened by an Introductory volume with a Presentation by the Author, the Introduction by the Editors – Mario Cedrini, Alberto Martinengo and Santiago Zabala – and the plan of the work. Each volume will collect published and unpublished texts, collected following a thematic rationale not always in line with the chronological order of the publicatons.

Structure of the Work:

Introductory Volume
Volume I Hermeneutics (7 Books)
Volume II Nietzsche (4 Books)
Volume III Heidegger (4 Books)
Volume IV Postmodernism (4 Books)
Volume V Religion (6 Books)
Volume VI Ontology (6 Books)
Volume VII Writings and autobiographic dialogues
Volume VIII Writings and philosophical notes(3 Books)
Volume IX Writings and interviews on politics(3 Books)
Volume X Writings and interviews on rights(2 Books)
Volume XI Writings and interviews on culture and religion(2 Books)