For more than forty years Gianni Vattimo one of Europes most important andinfluential philosophers has been a leading participant in the postwar turnthat has br... » 

For more than forty years Gianni Vattimo one of Europes most important andinfluential philosophers has been a leading participant in the postwar turnthat has brought Nietzsche back to the center of philosophical enquiry. In thiscollection of his essays on the subject which is a dialogue both withNietzsche and with the Nietzschean tradition Vattimo explores the Germanphilosophers most important works and discusses his views on the bermenschtime history truth hermeneutics ethics and aesthetics. He also presents adifferent more Italian Nietzsche one that diverges from German and Frenchcharacterizations. Many contemporary French and poststructuralist philosophersoffer literary or aesthetic readings of Nietzsches work that downplay itspolitical import. Shaped by the revolutionary tradition of 1968 Vattimosinterpretations take Nietzsche seriously as a political philosopher and arguefor and defend his relevance to projects for social and political change. «