Vattimo e il “voir venir” della religione

Abstract

This article engages with Gianni Vattimo’s theoretical elaboration of the voir venir of religion, addressing the question of the fate of religion in the wake of metaphysics. It contends that a pivotal dimension of Vattimo’s thought has often been neglected: his recurrent insistence that he is not speaking of the future (Zukunft) of religion, but of its coming (Ankunft). What remains insufficiently theorized is Vattimo’s conception of temporality, profoundly marked by his reading of Nietzsche, wherein the emphasis shifts from a teleological horizon to an open-ended advent – the future as coming, the voir venir. The article reconstructs this temporal schema and situates it in critical dialogue with Vattimo’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s notion of time, as well as with contemporary articulations of the future-as-coming in thinkers such as Catherine Malabou and Giorgio Agamben.