...John Brenkman Just as Jürgen Habermas's dialogue with Cardinal Ratzinger shifted critical theory's stance toward religion, the dialogue between Gianni Vattimo and René Girard reveals tensions within philosophy's critical appropriations of Christianity. Vattimo draws on Heidegger and hermeneutics...

....52 In Kraus, joy and despair are united, resulting in a perspective re™ned at the “threshold of the Last Judgment.”53 48. Ibid. 49. Vattimo, End of Modernity. 50. Benjamin, “Destructive Character,” 541. 51. Benjamin, “Karl Kraus,” 455. 52. Ibid., 436. 53. Ibid., 443. 18...

... , no. 94 ( 2008 ): 6 – 28 . Harris Matthew Edward . “ Gianni Vattimo’s Theory of Secularisation in Relation to the Löwith-Blumenberg Debate .” Heythrop Journal 56 , no. 4 ( 2015 ): 636 – 49 . Henning Christoph . Philosophy after Marx: One Hundred Years of Misreadings...

... of efforts—by Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Gianni Vattimo, and Jean-Luc Marion, and before them Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Lévinas—has become manifest to no longer conceive religion as the “other” of European modernism: no longer as an ide- ology or apogee of metaphysics, hence what Martin...