Abstract

LOZA BALTAZAR, Alonzo. Self-immolation as a Gift The Idea of the Subject in Gianni Vattimo. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2016, vol.65, n.160, pp.225-238. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v65n160.42620.

The article shows the general features of the postmodern notion of moral subject in Vattimo's work following his interpretation of Nietzsche and Heidegger, according to which the continuity between these thinkers only occurs on the horizon of a new ontology. This ontology is specified with the conducting thread of Bataille's notion of gift, which makes it a nihilist ontology of the gift (of being as a gift). Furthermore, the subject is defined as an agent of the gift, capable of receiving the gift of being as a call of the past and, simultaneously, capable of mediating a response configured as a gift for the future. This subject can be such only if it is de-substantized, or, according to Bataille's notion of gift, self-immolated.

Keywords : G. Vattimo; G. Bataille; hermeneutics; ontology.

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