The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible

Contributors

211 Contributors Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (2006) and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (2003) and the coeditor of several books, including Cosmopolitics : Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation (1998), Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (2003), and Derrida and the Time of the Political (2009). He is completing a book on theories of the world and world literature from the postcolonial peripheries in an age of financial globalization and a related book on globalization and the three Chinas as seen from the perspectives of the independent cinema of Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Fruit Chan. Thomas Claviez is currently Professor for Literary Theory and Director of the Center for Cultural Studies (CCS) at the University of Berne. He is the author of Grenzfälle: Mythos—Ideologiee—American Studies (1998) and Aesthetics & Ethics: Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to House Made of Dawn (2008). He is the coeditor of “Mirror Writing”: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity (2000), Theories of American Studies/Theories of American Culture (2003), Neo-Realism: Between Innovation and Continuation (2004), and Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (2006). He is currently working on a monograph with the title A Metonymic Society ? Towards a New Poetics of Community. Anne Dufourmantelle is a philosopher and psychoanalyst and teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fé. She is a member of Le Cercle Freudien 212 ■ Contributors (Paris) and the association Apres-Coup (New York). Her most recent publications include Intelligence du Rêve (2012), Fighting Theory: Interviews with Avital Ronnel (2011), Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy (2009), Negri on Negri: Antonio Negri in Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle (2007), and, with Jacques Derrida, Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond (2000). Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. His research mainly concentrates on local responses to globalization and identity politics more generally, and he has published extensively on social and cultural diversity, ethnicity, and nationalism. He is currently (2012–2016) directing a major research project on the crises of globalization. Among his books in English are Ethnicity and Nationalism (1993/2010), Small Places, Large Issues (1995/2010), Globalization: The Key Concepts (2007), and Engaging Anthropology (2006). In Norwegian, he has published widely in many genres and on a broad range of topics, from evolutionary theory to myth and history. Ulrik Pram Gad is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Advanced Security Theory in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Current research focuses on Muslims in Western security organizations and on postcolonial sovereignty games in the Arctic. His most recent publications include “Preventing Radicalisation through Dialogue? Self-Securitising Narratives vs. Reflexive Conflict Dynamics” in Critical Studies on Terrorism (2012), a volume in Routledge’s New International Relations Series on European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games (coedited with R. Adler-Nissen, 2012), a double special issue of Security Dialogue on “The Politics of Securitization” (coedited with K.L. Petersen, 2011), and a number of spin-offs from his PhD dissertation (How) Can They Become like Us? Danish Identity Politics and the Conflicts of “Muslim Relations” (2010). Bonnie Honig is Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and senior research professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. She is the prizewinning author of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (1993), Democracy and the Foreigner (2001), Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (2009), and Antigone, Interrupted (2013). She has edited or coedited Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (1995), Skepticism, Individuality, and Freedom: The Reluctant Liberalism of Richard Flathman (2002), and the Oxford Handbook of Political Thought (2006). Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology, and psychoanalysis. Her most recent publications include Sharing the World (2008), Conversations (2008), Teaching (2008), Between East and West: From Singularity to Community (2005), The Way of Love (2004), An Ethics of Sexual Difference (2004), To Speak Is Never Neutral (2002), Contributors ■ 213 Democracy Begins Between Two (2000), To Be Two (2000...