Santiago Zabala is an EU citizen born in 1975. He was raised in Rome, Vienna, and Geneva. After spending the Spring semester of 2010 as a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University Zabala has been appointed ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona where he currently teaches courses on contemporary philosophy. He is the author of The Remains of Being (2009), The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy (2008), co-author, with Gianni Vattimo, of Hermeneutic Communism (2011), editor of Weakening Philosophy (2007), The Future of Religion (2005), Nihilism and Emancipation (2004), Art's Claim to Truth (2009), and co-editor with Jeff Malpas of Consequences of Hermeneutics (2010). He also writes opinion articles and reviews for El Pais, the New York TImes, Al Jazeera, and other international journals. His webpage is http://www.santiagozabala.com/.