The contemporany crisis, felt in the most varied ways, may be described as a crisis of the bases on wich our wiew of reality as a unisonous and objective situation is based. From this standpoint, it does not appear to be possible to substitute such bases with others, as the crisis occurs exactly in relation to the possibility of there being any grounds for reality. What we judged to be stable and perennial revelead itself, through the historical events of Western civilization over the last centuries, as merely a possible interpretation that allowed us to attain the stage at wich we currently find ourselves. Nevertheless, it is exactly this moment we are experiencing, with the loss of a unitary wiew of history, the crisis of the notion of progress ant the depletion of the metaphysical view of the world as a result of its technical domination, thata allows us to denounce the perennial stability of reality as the vision specific to an era, as we are on the brink of a new world experience. The analysis of the end of Modern Times, the weakening of the strong notions of reality and being is called nihilism and Gianni Vattimo achieves this perspective of history chiefly through the works of Heidegger and Nietzsche. It is trough the analysis of the History of the west from the nihilistic satndpoint, in wich being as a simple presence reveals itself to be a manifestation of a given time, of a destiny, that we are able to elucidate what opportunities this new manner of being creates for us, in terms of intelligence and action.