'Hermeneutic Communism - From Heidegger to Marx'.pdf

Hermeneutic Communism: from Heidegger to Marx is a book of political philosophy written by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala Columbia University Press

Hermeneutic communism leaves aside the ideal of development and the general call for revolution; it relies on interpretation rather than truth and proves more flexible in different contexts. Hermeneutic communism motivates a resistance to capitalism’s inequalities yet intervenes against violence and authoritarianism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth. Paralleling Vattimo and Zabala’s well-known work on the weakening of religion, Hermeneutic Communism realizes the fully transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist thought.