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is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Aachen, Germany. He is the author of, among other books, Ästhetik und Politik: Heinrich Heines Prosa (1971), Hanns Eisler: Musik einer Zeit, die sich eben bildet (1976; translated into four languages), Exil und Engagement: Deutsche Schriftsteller im Frankreich der dreißiger Jahre (1986), and Der Charme des Ruhestörers: HeineStudien (1997). is professor of philosophy and aesthetics at Columbia University , New York. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (1992) and The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy (1998). She is currently completing a book titled Notes to Adorno. She is the coeditor, with Daniel Herwitz, of The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera (2006). is professor of German at the University of Georgia, Athens. She is the author of Walter Benjamin’s Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (1998) and Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory (2000), and coeditor of The Turn to Ethics (2002), Walter Benjamin and Romanticism (2002), and Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (forthcoming). is the William F. Vilas Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an honorary professor at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. The author and editor of numerous books, his works on music include Konkretes Hören: Zum Inhalt der Instrumentalmusik (1981) and Beredte Töne: Musik im historischen Prozeß (1990), as well as essays on Adorno’s Beethoven fragments, Brecht as a composer, and Eisler’s German Symphony. Among his most recent books are Beethoven: Werk und Wirkung (2003) and Nach der Postmoderne: Ästhetik heute (2004). 261 is professor of philosophy and the founding director of the Humanities Center at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author of a dozen books, including The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God (2005), The Purest of Bastards: Works of Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida (2000), and Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism (1998). is a well-known freelance writer and journalist who teaches German literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Among his books on modern literature, philosophy, and psychology are Hegel in Las Vegas: Amerikanische Glossen (1992), NICHTS: Abschied vom Sein: Ende der Angst (1999), and Schwarze Ontologie: Über Günther Anders (2002). He is also the editor of the German edition of Schopenhauer’s collected works. is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Temple University. is a doctoral candidate in German literature and musicology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. is associate professor of German at the University of California , Davis. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography (2000), Ästhetik des Ereignisses: Sprache—Geschichte—Medium (2005), and ThoughtImages : Frankfurt School Writers’ Reflections from Damaged Life (in press). He is also the editor of Benjamin’s Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (2002) and Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship (2002). is the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Smith College, where he taught from 1967 to 2004. He has published widely in the field of German studies, focusing on Goethe, Wagner, and Thomas Mann as well as on music history and film. A 1994 recipient of the Thomas Mann Medal for his edition of the correspondence of Mann and Agnes E. Meyer, he is also one of the chief editors of the new edition of the works, letters, and diaries of Thomas Mann. teaches German and comparative literature at Northwestern University, where he is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked as a dramaturg on Wagner’s Ring and Parsifal (directed by Ruth Berghaus) and on several other opera and theater productions in Germany. He recently published two books, Theatricality as Medium (2004) and Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking (2005). He is currently completing a study of Walter Benjamin. 262 Contributors ...
