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Contributors Talal Asad was born in Saudi Arabia and educated in Britain. He now teaches anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is entitled Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (2003). Pope Benedict XVI is the 265th and reigning Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, and the sovereign of Vatican City State. Formerly Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, he served as a professor at various German universities and at the time of his election was Dean of the College of Cardinals. The most recent of his books to have appeared in English are Values in a Time of Upheaval, Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith: The Church as Communion, The End of Time? The Provocation of Talking about God (all 2005), and Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions (2004). Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University and a founding member of the journal theory & event. She is the author of The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics (2001), Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild (1994; 2d ed. 2002), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment: Nature and the State in a Post-Hegelian Era (1987). She is currently working on a book that explores the ecological implications of different conceptions of materiality in contemporary political thought. Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California , Berkeley. Her books include Regulating Aversion: A Critique of Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (2006), Edgework: Essays on Knowledge and Politics (2005), Politics out of History (2001), and States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (1995). Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent 6 91 CONTRIBUTORS books are Giving an Account of Oneself (2005) and Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004). Job Cohen is Mayor of Amsterdam, a post he has held since January 15, 2001. Before that time, he was State Secretary of the Dutch Ministry of Justice, dealing chiefly with immigration, under Prime Minister Wim Kok. Prior to his entry into politics as a member of the Labor Party (PvdA), he was Professor of Methods and Techniques in the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, and then the university’s Rector Magnificus. In 2005, Time magazine awarded him the title ‘‘European Hero.’’ William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at The Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches political theory. His earlier book The Terms of Political Discourse (1993) won the Lippincott award for ‘‘a book of outstanding merit that is still significant after a time span of at least fifteen years.’’ His recent publications include Pluralism (2005), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002), and Why I Am Not A Secularist (2000). Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at The Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches in the Department of Anthropology. She is a Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Third World Academy of Sciences. She has published widely on questions of social suffering and violence. The last two books she has authored are Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2006) and Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India (1995). Marcel Detienne is Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at The Johns Hopkins University. Some of his recent books are: A Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece (2006), Les Grecs et nous (2005), Comment être autochtone: Du pur athenien au français racine (2003), Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context (2002), and Comparer l’incomparable (2000). Thierry de Duve is Professor of Aesthetics and Art History at the University of Lille 3. His work has long revolved around Marcel Duchamp’s readymades and their implications for aesthetics; it is now finding a new center of interest in the work of Manet. He is the author of several books, including Kant after Duchamp (1996). He curated the exhibition ‘‘Voici—100 ans d’art contemporain’’ at the Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts in 2000, as well as the Belgian pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale, shared by Sylvie Eyberg and Valérie Mannaerts. Stefanos Geroulanos is a doctoral candidate in intellectual history at The Johns Hopkins Humanities Center and is currently completing his dissertation, ‘‘Man under Erasure: 6 92 [3.238.57.9] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:04 GMT) C O N TR I B U T O R S...