Vattimo shares with Sun Ra an emphasis on myth-remaking and the radical potential of Christian nihilism, weakness that compels discipline in contrast to angry insistence on absolutes, inalienable rights, and underlying natures.

Secularization for Vattimo represents "the triumph of love over law, of kindness over obedience." Sun Ra said he hadn't ever experienced freedom and wasn't human but a dangerous angel. Vattimo interprets "kenosis – the emptying out of God into man that was the Incarnation – as a prefiguration of nihilism, as a wholesale and complete transfer of authority from the nonhuman to the human." #Richard_Rorty on #GianniVattimo #SunRa

Great piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on a series of masterful lectures from 1998 by Richard Rorty:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/sachbuch/richard-rortys-vorlesungen-von-1998-19031431.html
#Philosophy #Richard_Rorty
Richard Rorty: Die Vorteile des Vatermords

Sein philosophisches Großreinemachen mündet in den Appell, im positiven Sinne schamlos zu sein: Richard Rortys Vorlesungen aus dem Jahr 1996 hatten eigentlich das Zeug zu einem Hauptwerk.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung