Antonio Campillo is a professor of philosophy at the University of Murcia. Among his publications include: Farewell to progress. A meditation on the history (1985), Dialogue of the Worlds (1986), The Force of Reason. War, State and military science in the Renaissance treatises, from Machiavelli to Galileo (1987), The reason silent. A reading of the Enneads of Plotinus (1990), The invention of the subject (2001), Against the Economy. Essays on Bataille (2001), The Great Experiment. Essays on global society (2001) and variations of human life. A Theory of History (2001).