Santiago Zabala is researcher in philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, and the author of numerous books, including Tugendhat: The Hermeneutical Nature of Analytic Philosophy.

"Weakening Philosophy does what no other book has done with this major figure in contemporary thought: place him at the centre of a dialogue featuring important voices in philosophy today - Eco, Nancy, Rorty, Taylor, Frank, Welsch, and Onate." William Egginton, The Johns Hopkins University "An outstanding and unique collection. Vattimo has made numerous original, path-breaking contributions to the philosophy of religion, all of which are very intelligently discussed, analyzed, and criticized by the contributors." Barry Allen, McMaster University

• Contributors include Rudiger Bubner (Heidelberg), Carmelo Dotolo (Pontifical Urbaniana), Paolo Flores d'Arcais (Rome "La Sapienza"), Umberto Eco (Bologna), Manfred Frank (Eberhard Karls, Tubingen), Jean Grondin (Montreal), Nancy Frankenberry (Dartmouth College), Giacomo Marramao (Rome "Tre"), Jack Miles (Getty Trust), Jean-Luc Nancy (Marc Bloch, Strasbourg), Teresa Onate (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), Jeffrey Perl (Bar-Ilan University), James Risser (Seattle), Richard Rorty (Stanford), Pier Aldo Rovatti (Trieste), Fernando Savater (Complutense, Madrid), Reiner Schurmann (Duquesne), Hugh J. Silverman (Stony Brook), Charles Taylor (McGill), Gianni Vattimo (Turin), Wolfgang Welsch (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena), and Santiago Zabala (Pontifical Lateran, Rome)