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)