Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Gianni Vattimo and Weak Philosophy -- PART ONE: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL POWER -- 2 Weak Thought and the Limits of Interpretation -- 3 Modern Moral Rationalism -- 4 Which Ontology after Metaphysics? Conversations with Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty -- 5 The Human - Over and Over Again -- 6 Can the Globalized World Be in-the-World? -- 7 Deconstruction Is Not Enough: On Gianni Vattimo's Call for "Weak Thinking" -- 8 Weak Thought 2004: A Tribute to Gianni Vattimo -- PART TWO: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL METHODS -- 9 Heideggerianism and Leftist Politics -- 10 The Universality Claim of Hermeneutics -- 11 On the Continuation of Philosophy: Hermeneutics as Convalescence -- 12 Vattimo's Latinization of Hermeneutics: Why Did Gadamer Resist Postmodernism? -- 13 Looking Back on Gadamer's Hermeneutics -- 14 Pharmakons of Onto-theology -- 15 Gianni Vattimo -- or rather, Hermeneutics as the Primacy of Politics -- PART THREE: WEAKENING METAPHYSICAL BELIEFS -- 16 Weakening Religious Belief: Vattimo, Rorty, and the Holism of the Mental -- 17 Christianity as Religion and the Irreligion of the Future -- 18 Israel as Foundling, Jesus as Bachelor: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Fatherhood of God -- 19 Postmodern Disarmament -- 20 The Hermeneutics of Christianity and Philosophical Responsibility -- 21 The Rights of God in Hermeneutical Postmodernity -- 22 Atheism and Monotheism -- Conclusion: Metaphysics and Violence -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.