Gianni Vattimo is one of the world's most important philosophers, yet he has received scant attention in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays introduce his ideas to a wider audience. It assesses Vattimo's influence and the major tenets of his thought.

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)