(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Talking about the book, its translator Kaveh Hussein zadeh rad said: “The book has been gathered by Santiago Zabala holding interviews with Vattimo, Italian philosopher of hermeneutics, and Richard Rorty, American philosopher of Pragmatism. Zabala has written an introduction to the book as well.”
Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Rorty and Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious life.
They urge that the rejection of metaphysical truth does not necessitate the death of religion; instead it opens new ways of imagining what it is to be religious -- ways that emphasize charity, solidarity, and irony.
This unique collaboration, which includes a dialogue between the two philosophers, is notable not only for its fusion of pragmatism (Rorty) and hermeneutics (Vattimo) but also for its recognition of the limits of both traditional religious belief and modern secularism, Amazon says.
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