Maurizio Ferraris is a full professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Turin and is the president of Labont (Center for Ontology). He is also the director of �Scienza Nuova�, an institute of advanced studies aimed at planning a sustainable future. Visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, Munich, and Paris, newspaper columnist, author of successful television programmes and over seventy books, he has determined a new course of thought and studies in at least six areas: history of hermeneutics, aesthetics as theory of perception, social ontology, metaphysics, technological anthropology, and philosophy of economics.