About the Author



Gianni Vattimo teaches hermeneutic philosophy at the University of Turin and is a renowned public intellectual and former member of the European parliament. His books include After the Death of God (with John D. Caputo), The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty), Nihilism and Emancipation, After Christianity, and the forthcoming, Art's Claim to Truth. William McCuaig is the translator of Books, Banks, Buttons, and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages, by Chiara Frugoni, and Vattimo's Nihilism and Emancipation.