Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. His books with Columbia University Press are Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue (with Rene Girard), Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, Art's Claim to Truth, After the Death of God, Dialogue with Nietzsche, The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty), Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and the Law, and After Christianity.William McCuaig is the translator of Books, Banks, Buttons, and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages, by Chiara Frugoni, and Vattimo's Nihilism and Emancipation.

• Preface Translator's Note List of Abbreviations and Translations 1. Nihilism and the Problem of Temporality 2. Nietzsche's Vision of the World 3. The Problem of Historical Knowledge and the Formation of the Nietzschean Idea of Truth 4. Philosophy as Ontological Activity 5. Nietzsche and Contemporary Hermeneutics 6. Nietzsche, the Superman, and the Spirit of the Avant-garde 7. Art and Identity: On the Relevance of Nietzsche's Aesthetics 8. The Wisdom of the Superman 9. The Two Senses of Nihilism in Nietzsche 10. The Gay Science 11. Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality 12. Zarathustra 13. Nietzsche, Heidegger's Interpreter 14. The "Italian" Nietzsche 15. Nietzsche, 1994 Notes Bibliography Index

Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. His books with Columbia University Press are Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue (with Rene Girard), Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, Art's Claim to Truth, After the Death of God, Dialogue with Nietzsche, The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty), Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and the Law, and After Christianity.William McCuaig is the translator of Books, Banks, Buttons, and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages, by Chiara Frugoni, and Vattimo's Nihilism and Emancipation.

• Preface Translator's Note List of Abbreviations and Translations 1. Nihilism and the Problem of Temporality 2. Nietzsche's Vision of the World 3. The Problem of Historical Knowledge and the Formation of the Nietzschean Idea of Truth 4. Philosophy as Ontological Activity 5. Nietzsche and Contemporary Hermeneutics 6. Nietzsche, the Superman, and the Spirit of the Avant-garde 7. Art and Identity: On the Relevance of Nietzsche's Aesthetics 8. The Wisdom of the Superman 9. The Two Senses of Nihilism in Nietzsche 10. The Gay Science 11. Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality 12. Zarathustra 13. Nietzsche, Heidegger's Interpreter 14. The "Italian" Nietzsche 15. Nietzsche, 1994 Notes Bibliography Index

Gianni Vattimo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. His books with Columbia University Press are Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue (with Rene Girard), Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, Art's Claim to Truth, After the Death of God, Dialogue with Nietzsche, The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty), Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and the Law, and After Christianity.William McCuaig is the translator of Books, Banks, Buttons, and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages, by Chiara Frugoni, and Vattimo's Nihilism and Emancipation.

• Preface Translator's Note List of Abbreviations and Translations 1. Nihilism and the Problem of Temporality 2. Nietzsche's Vision of the World 3. The Problem of Historical Knowledge and the Formation of the Nietzschean Idea of Truth 4. Philosophy as Ontological Activity 5. Nietzsche and Contemporary Hermeneutics 6. Nietzsche, the Superman, and the Spirit of the Avant-garde 7. Art and Identity: On the Relevance of Nietzsche's Aesthetics 8. The Wisdom of the Superman 9. The Two Senses of Nihilism in Nietzsche 10. The Gay Science 11. Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality 12. Zarathustra 13. Nietzsche, Heidegger's Interpreter 14. The "Italian" Nietzsche 15. Nietzsche, 1994 Notes Bibliography Index