Making Communism Hermeneutical

Part I. Hermeneutics

1. The End of Metaphysics, the Uses and Abuses of Philosophy, and Understanding Just a Little Better: On Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism

Eduardo Mendieta

2. Response to Mendieta
Santiago Zabala, Gianni Vattimo

3. Politics, Hermeneutics, and Truth
Jeff Malpas, Nick Malpas

4. Response to Jeff Malpas and Nick Malpas
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

5. Hermeneutic Communism: Left Heideggerianism’s Last Hope?
Martin Woessner

6. Response to Woessner
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

7. Love’s Law? The Principle of Anarchy in a Weakened Communism
Peg Birmingham

8. Response to Birmingham
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

9. The Political Becoming of Hermeneutics
Jeffrey W. Robbins

10. Response to Robbins
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

Part II. Weakening

11. Hermeneutic Communism as (Weak) Political Phenomenology
Michael Marder

12. Response to Marder
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

13. Tools for Subversion: Illich and Žižek on Changing the World
Babette Babich

14. Response to Babich
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

15. If the Weak Would Win: The Specter of Communism and the Re-birth of Democracy
Silvia Mazzini

16. Response to Mazzini
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

17. Power and Post-Metaphysics
Bradley Kaye

18. Response to Kaye
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

19. The Dangerous Divide: Between Weak Thought and Practical Politics
Lucas Ross Perkins, Michael Allen Gillespie

20. Response to Perkins and Gillespie
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

21. It’s Time to Change the World, So Interpret It!: On Vattimo and Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism
Liu Liangjian

22. Response to Liangjian
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

Part III. Communism

23. The New Communism: Reflections at the End of Capitalism and the Need for Engaging Minor Sciences
Clayton Crockett

24. Response to Crockett
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

25. Are the Oppressed ‘Weak’?: Emancipation and Hermeneutic Communism
Owen Glyn-Williams

26. Response to Glyn-Williams
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

27. Nietzsche the Communist? A Genealogy of Interpretation
Robert T. Valgenti

28. Response to Valgenti
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

29. Hermeneutic Capitalism? Prologue- the Death and the Challenge
Mike Grimshaw

30. Response to Grimshaw
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

31. Potentiality of Life
William Egginton

32. Response to Egginton
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

33. The Actuality of Philosophy: Critical Reflections on Hermeneutic Communism

Roberto Alejandro

34. Response to Alejandro
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

Keywords: Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Regional and Cultural Studies