Contributors
- Contributors
robert bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of How to Read Sartre and of two books on Heidegger. In addition to editing a number of volumes associated with the work of Emmanuel Levinas, he has edited numerous collections on race and racism. He writes extensively on the history of philosophy including those aspects of it that relate to the critical philosophy of race.
michael d. burroughs is assistant director of the Rock Ethics Institute, senior lecturer of philosophy, and affiliate faculty member in the College of Education at The Pennsylvania State University. His primary research interests meet at the intersection of ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of education. In addition, for over a decade he has practiced philosophical fieldwork with populations beyond the academy, facilitating philosophy discussion groups with and programming for children in K-12 schools, the elderly, and the incarcerated. He is the author of numerous book chapters and is currently working on a coauthored book manuscript (with Jana Mohr Lone) entitled The Perspectives of Children: Dialogue and Reflection in Schools (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming).
peter fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University and the author of several books, including Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth (2003) and The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (2011).
george n. fourlas received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2014. He specializes in social-political [End Page 171] philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of race/ethnicity, with a special focus on conflict resolution and global peace movements. He is currently an instructor at Worcester State University, Quinsigamond Community College, and a visiting researcher at El Instituto de Gobernanza Democrática, Globernance, Donostia/San Sebastian.
maurice hamington is a feminist care ethicist who has authored four books: Hail Mary? The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism (Routledge, 1995), Embodied Care (University of Illinois Press, 2004), The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams (University of Illinois Press, 2009), and Revealing Philosophy (Thinking Strings, 2013—an interactive e-textbook http://www.thinkingstrings.com/revealing-philosophy.php). He has also edited or coedited six books, including Socializing Care, with Dorothy Miller (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), and Applying Care Ethics to Business, with Maureen Sander-Staudt (Springer, 2011). He is currently Executive Dean at Lane Community College and holds a Courtesy Research appointment at the University of Oregon. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oregon (2001) and a Ph.D. in religion and social ethics from the University of Southern California (1995). Further information is available at http://independent.academia.edu/MauriceHamington
kimberly ann harris is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. She works primarily on nineteenth-century philosophy, African-American philosophy, and critical philosophy of race.
frank m. kirkland is professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include an authored monograph The Problem of the Color Line: Normative or Empirical; Evolving or Non-Evolving (Library of Congress Prints, 2005) and two edited volumes Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader with Bill Lawson (Blackwell, 1999) and Phenomenology—East and West: Essays in Honor of J. N. Mohanty (Kluwer, 1994). He has published numerous articles on Kant, Hegelian and Husserlian idealisms as well as on the modernism of the African-diasporic intellectual tradition. He is currently at work on a single-authored volume tentatively entitled Hegelian Idealism and the Black Atlantic as well as on two articles—one on Alexander Crummell, the other on Kant and Hegel on race.
ulrich pallua is an assistant professor at Innsbruck University, Austria. His work combines postcolonial, critical race, and gender theory. His books include Africa’s Transition from Colonisation to Independence and Decolonisation (Ibidem, 2004), Eurocentrism, Racism, Colonialism in the Victorian and Edwardian Age (Winter, 2006), (Re) Figuring Human Enslavement: Images of Power, Violence and Resistance coedited with Adrian Knapp and Andreas Exenberger (Innsbruck University Press, 2009), [End Page 172] and Racism, Slavery, and Literature coedited with Wolfgang Zach (Peter Lang, 2010). He has published in a wide range of journals and anthologies on...
