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“Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.”

Book:Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx

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Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx

This book delves into the philosophical dialogue between Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx, analyzing the influence of hermeneutics on Marxist thought. It examines the hermeneutic approach to understanding both philosophers' works and their implications for contemporary political and social theory. more

Author

Gianni Vattimo

Gianni Vattimo, an Italian politician, was born on January 4, 1936. He is renowned for his contributions to postmodern philosophy, particularly in the fields of deconstruction and critical theory. more

“Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.”

Has Beens Facts Past Projects Messages Tradition Importance Determined Arise Thrown Horizon Disclosure Announcements

Author:Gianni Vattimo

“Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.”