Gianni Vattimo is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of several books, including The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture and Nietzsche: An Introduction. Peter Carravetta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture, and the translator of Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti's coedited book Weak Thought, also published by SUNY Press.

• Translator’s PrefaceTranslator’s Introduction: The End(s) of Subjectivity and the Hermeneutic TaskPeter CarravettaAuthor’s Preface: The Bottle, the Net, the Revolution, and the Tasks of Philosophy: A Dialogue with Lotta Continua 1. Nietzsche, Beyond the Subject2. Towards an Ontology of Decline3. Heidegger and Poetry as Decline of Language4. Outcomes of HermeneuticsAppendix 1 The Crisis of Subjectivity from Nietzsche to HeideggerAppendix 2 Hermeneutics as Koine NotesReferencesIndex of NamesIndex of Terms

Gianni Vattimo is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of several books, including The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture and Nietzsche: An Introduction. Peter Carravetta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture, and the translator of Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti's coedited book Weak Thought, also published by SUNY Press.

• Translator’s PrefaceTranslator’s Introduction: The End(s) of Subjectivity and the Hermeneutic TaskPeter CarravettaAuthor’s Preface: The Bottle, the Net, the Revolution, and the Tasks of Philosophy: A Dialogue with Lotta Continua 1. Nietzsche, Beyond the Subject2. Towards an Ontology of Decline3. Heidegger and Poetry as Decline of Language4. Outcomes of HermeneuticsAppendix 1 The Crisis of Subjectivity from Nietzsche to HeideggerAppendix 2 Hermeneutics as Koine NotesReferencesIndex of NamesIndex of Terms

Gianni Vattimo is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of several books, including The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture and Nietzsche: An Introduction. Peter Carravetta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture, and the translator of Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti's coedited book Weak Thought, also published by SUNY Press.

• Translator’s PrefaceTranslator’s Introduction: The End(s) of Subjectivity and the Hermeneutic TaskPeter CarravettaAuthor’s Preface: The Bottle, the Net, the Revolution, and the Tasks of Philosophy: A Dialogue with Lotta Continua 1. Nietzsche, Beyond the Subject2. Towards an Ontology of Decline3. Heidegger and Poetry as Decline of Language4. Outcomes of HermeneuticsAppendix 1 The Crisis of Subjectivity from Nietzsche to HeideggerAppendix 2 Hermeneutics as Koine NotesReferencesIndex of NamesIndex of Terms