In addition to his academic career, he was a member of the European Parliament and actively contributed to Italian and European politics, especially on LGBTI rights issues.
The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo, author of the theory of weak thinking and author of the work “The end of modernity”, He died in Turin at the age of 87, as confirmed to the newspaper Reppublica by his partner Simone Caminada.
In addition to his academic career, Vattimo was a member of the European Parliament and actively contributed to Italian and European politics, especially on LGBTI rights issues.
Born in Turin in 1936, he studied Philosophy at the University of his hometown and later at the University of Heildelberg. He was a disciple of Hans-Georg Gadamer and in 1964 he began teaching aesthetics at the Facoltá di Lettere e Filosofia in Turin, of which he was its dean.
His philosophical activity was clearly influenced by the approaches of Nietzsche and Heidegger – the latter author whom he has translated into Italian – and focuses on a review of the role of philosophy in our society and the transformation of thought, the functions and social effects of thinking in everyday practices.
His works include “The Adventures of Difference”, “Weak Thought”, “The End of Modernity”, “The Transparent Society”, “Ethics of Interpretation”, “Believing that One Believes”, “Dialogues with Nietzsche ” and one of his best-known essays, “The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Emancipation.”
Source: Ambito
