Jacques Derrida (El Biar, Algeri, 1930) teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the University of California at Irvine. For Laterza he has published, amongst other works, La mano di Heidegger (1991) and edited La religione. Annuario Filosofico Europeo (with G. Vattimo, 1995).

Gianni Vattimo (b. Turin, 1936) is one of Europe’s most celebrated philosophers. He teaches at the University of Turin. Among his most recent publications, we recall: Believing one Believes (Milan 1996); Twentieth-Century Atlas (Turin 2000); and, After Christianity (Milan 2002).