# Materialisms Reading Group: The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture

Materialisms Reading Group: The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture at University of Westminster, Thursday 19 November 2026, 18:30.

- Price: Free
- Venue: University of Westminster
- With: Caroline von Taysen
- Go to page: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/materialisms-reading-group-the-end-of-modernity-nihilism-and-hermeneutics-in-post-modern-culture

The Materialisms Reading Group meets to discuss Gianni Vattimo's 'The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture'. Caroline von Taysen of the University of Westminster introduces the text. The group holds regular informal, open meetings about posthuman, new materialist, speculative realist, actor-network and object-oriented understandings of the materiality of life and its governance, and has been running since May 2013.

## Dates

- Thursday 19 November 18:30 — University of Westminster

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