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(2017) Making communism hermeneutical, Dordrecht, Springer.

Response to Babich

Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

pp. 113-114

At first we thought Babette Babich's contribution was going to focus on our use of Nietzsche, since she is among the most important contemporary specialists of the German thinker. Instead, as a serious hermeneutic thinker often does, she surprised us by analyzing separately our "hermeneutic" and "communist" theses through a variety of authors (Ivan Illich, Stanley Aronowitz, Slavoj Žižek) and issues (education, materialism, financial crisis) in order to open new horizons and confront urgent questions. Her contribution embraces hermeneutic radicalism to the fullest. But what does this radicalism refer to?

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59021-9_14

Full citation:

Vattimo, G. , Zabala, S. (2017)., Response to Babich, in S. Mazzini & O. Glyn-Williams (eds.), Making communism hermeneutical, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 113-114.

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