Richard Rorty is professor of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. His books include The Linguistic Turn; Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Consequences of Pragmatism; Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity; Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers I; Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers II; Truth, Politics, and Post-Modernism; Achieving Our Country; Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers III; and Philosophy and Social Hope.
Gianni Vattimo teaches theoretical and hermeneutical philosophy at the University of Turin. His books in English include The End of Modernity; The Adventure of Difference; The Transparent Society; Secularization of Philosophy; Nietzsche: An Introduction; Beyond Interpretation; Belief; Religion (with J. Derrida); After Christianity; and Nihilism and Emancipation.
Santiago Zabala is researcher in philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome. He is the author of numerous publications on religion and postmodern thought. He has edited Gianni Vattimo’s Nihilism and Emancipation and is now preparing and editing Weakening Philosophy: Festschrift in Honour of Gianni Vattimo with contributions from distinguished philosophers.