Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is the author of Why Only Art can Save Us (2017) 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), co-editor with Jeff Malpas of Consequences of Hermeneutics (2010) and co-editor with M. Marder of Being Shaken: Ontology and the Event (2013). He also writes opinion articles and reviews for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Los Angeles review of Books, Al Jazeera, the New Statesman, and several academic journals. His web page is http://www.santiagozabala.com/.