Introduction: Gianni Vattimo and weak philosophy / Santiago Zabal -- Weak thought and the limits of interpretation / Umberto Eco -- Modern moral rationalism / Charles Taylor -- Which ontology after metaphysics? Conversations with Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty / Giacomo Marramao -- The human : over and over again / Wolfgang Welsch -- Can the globalized world be in-the-world? / Hugh J. Silverman -- Deconstruction is not enough : on Gianni Vattimo's call for 'weak thinking' / Reiner Schurmann -- Weak thought 2004 : a tribute to Gianni Vattimo / Pier Aldo Rovatti -- Heideggerianism and leftist politics / Richard Rorty -- The universality claim of hermeneutics / Manfred Frank -- On the continuation of philosophy : hermeneutics as convalescence / James Risser -- Vattimo's Latinization of hermeneutics : why did Gadamer resist postmodernism? / Jean Grondin -- Looking back on Gadamer's hermeneutics / Rudiger Bubner -- Pharmakons on onto-theology / Santiago Zabala -- Gianni Vattimo, or, rather, hermeneutics as the primacy of politics / Paolo Flores D'Arcais -- Weakening religious belief : Vattimo, Rorty, and the holism of the mental / Nancy K. Frankenberry -- Christianity as religion and the irreligion of the future / Gernando Savater -- Israel as foundling, Jesus as bachelor : abandonment, adoption, and the Fatherhood of God / Jack Miles -- Postmodern disarmament / Jeffrey Perl -- The hermeneutics of Christianity and philosophical responsibility / Carmelo Dotolo -- The rights of God in hermeneutical postmodernity / Teresa Onate -- ATheism and monotheism / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Conclusion : Metaphysics and violence / Gianni Vattimo.