The end of metaphysics, the uses and abuses of philosophy, and understanding just a Little better

on Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala's hermeneutic communism

Eduardo Mendieta

pp. 3-14

in: Silvia Mazzini, Owen Glyn-Williams (eds), Making communism hermeneutical, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

This chapter engages Vattimo and Zabala's Hermeneutic Communism from the standpoint of how it relates to a venerable tradition of "manifestos'. A typology of manifestos is offered and then the question is raised, to what extent we can fit Hermeneutic Communism within this tradition. The chapter also engages a questionable assumption of Hermeneutic Communism, namely the metaphysics of the end, which is announced as the end of metaphysics. This last point is elaborated vis-a-vis a reading of Rorty, which challenged the usefulness of philosophical manifestos for practical politics.

Cited authors

Vattimo Gianni

Zabala Santiago