"One cannot deny that at the heart of the attitude still referred to today as “weak thought”, which continues to have its mentor in Gianni Vattimo, there is a persistent trace of that longing for the infinite that was characteristic of Romanticism. The infinity of Being, Truth and Perfection, which Romanticism dreamed of, is replaced by the infinity of transience, error and evil as the nature of the world, thus absolutising appearance in its worst forms and making human experience the destiny of nothingness. This new romantic dream, which is the inverse of the nineteenth-century one, may perhaps appeal as a literary expression of the crisis, the prevailing evils, the dangers facing humanity today, but it does not indicate any way out."

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