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At first we thought Babette Babich’s contribution was going to focus on our use of Nietzsche, since she is among the most important contemporary specialists of the German thinker. Instead, as a serious hermeneutic thinker often does, she surprised us by analyzing separately our “hermeneutic” and “communist” theses through a variety of authors (Ivan Illich, Stanley Aronowitz, Slavoj Žižek) and issues (education, materialism, financial crisis) in order to open new horizons and confront urgent questions. Her contribution embraces hermeneutic radicalism to the fullest. But what does this radicalism refer to?
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Vattimo, G., Zabala, S. (2017). Response to Babich. In: Mazzini, S., Glyn-Williams, O. (eds) Making Communism Hermeneutical. Contributions to Hermeneutics, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59021-9_14
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