Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is a former MacArthur Fellow. A contributor to the Washington Post and the Nation, she is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens, Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education, Why Plato Wrote, and, most recently, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality.
Frank Ankersmit is emeritus professor of intellectual history and philosophy of history at Groningen University and a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of the Sciences. His many books include Narrative Logic; History and Tropology; Political Representation; Aesthetic Politics; Sublime Historical Experience; and Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation.
Caroline Walker Bynum, professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor emerita at Columbia, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Orden pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, former president of the American Historical Association, and formerly a MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200–1336; Metamorphosis and Identity; Wonderful Blood; and Christian Materiality.
Lorraine Daston is director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Recipient of the Pfizer Prize for her book Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, she is coauthor of Objectivity; Talking with Animals; and Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750. She has also edited or coedited Histories of Scientific Observation, Biographies of Scientific Objects, Things That Talk, The Moral Authority of Nature, and the early modern volume in the Cambridge History of Science.
René Descartes (1596–1650) was tutor to Queen Christina of Sweden during the final year of his life.
Ronald de Sousa, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and recently president of the Canadian Philosophical Association, is the author of Emotional Truth; Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind, and (forthcoming) Love: A Very Short Introduction.
Camille de Toledo is a video artist in Berlin (working under the name of Alexis Mital), as well as a musician and photographer. His books in English translation include Superhip, Jolipunk: Coming of Age at the End of History. Vies pøtentielles, from which an excerpt is published in this issue of Common Knowledge, follows on from his book Le hêtre et le bouleau: Essai sur la tristesse européenne. Ann Jefferson, professor of French at Oxford University and a fellow of New College, is the author of books on literary theory, Stendhal, and Nathalie Sarraute and the nouveau roman. She is a fellow of the British Academy. [End Page 387]
Sir J. H. Elliott, Regius Professor emeritus of modern history at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy, is a recipient of the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences and the Balzan Prize for History. Among his many books are Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830; The Old World and the New, 1492–1650; The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain, 1598–1640; Richelieu and Olivares; The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline; Spain and Its World, 1500–1700; and, most recently, History in the Making.
Mikhail Epstein is codirector of the new Center for Humanities Innovation at Durham University and professor of Russian and cultural theory there. The author of some thirty books, including, most recently, Religion after Atheism: New Possibilities for Theology (in Russian) and The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto, he is a recipient of the Andrei Belyi Prize of St. Petersburg and received the International Essay Prize of Weimar for “Chronocide,” which appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of Common Knowledge. His books and articles have been translated into eighteen languages.
André Gombay, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, is chief editor of the Oeuvres complètes de René Descartes and...
