Gianni Vattimo and the weak revolution

Aesthetic ontology, political theology and hermeneutics of actual history

Abstract

It is a matter of showing the hermeneutical links that the title of this paper mentions. To this end, the First Vattimo [who operates a leftist reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger, starting from Gadamer and Pareyson in order to transform the historicist and positivist Metaphysics of History thanks to the occurrence of the interpretative truth of being in the work of art] is distinguished from the Second Vattimo, whose turn (Kehre) to a hermeneutical Christianism culminates the ontology of space-time in the advent of a possible kenotic-communitarian political theology and weakening of all violence. To do this, we follow the methodological thread of distinguishing-gathering the plane of the concrete affects, concepts and perceptions that come into play in this research.