Notes on Contributors

Adriana BonteA holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and is a Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex. She has published several articles in the area of seventeenth-century literature. (a.bontea@sussex.ac.uk)

Barbara Cassin, philologist, philosopher, and specialist in Greek Antiquity, is a director of research at Paris's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. In addition to her translations and many edited anthologies, her books include L'Effet sophistique (1995) and Aristotle et le logos, Contes de la phénoménologie ordinaire (1997). Her articles in English are included in Comparative Civilizations Review, Rhetorica, Vicissitudes of French Thought (ed. Jean-Joseph Goux and Philip Wood, 1998) and Le Savoir grec (ed. J. Brunschwig and G. Lloyd, forthcoming). She is currently working on a dictionary of "untranslatable" terms in philosophy. (barbara.cassin@wanadoo.fr)

Stanley Cavell is Professor Emeritus of Harvard University, where for four decades he taught philosophy (as well as some film and Shakespeare). Since retirement, he has engaged in more exploratory reading and writing, which has resulted in scattered publications. Recent books, just before retirement, are A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises, and Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman. (cavell@pop.fas.harvard.edu)

Françoise Dastur is the author of Death: An Essay on Finitude (1996), Heidegger and the Question of Time (1998), and Telling Time: A Sketch of Phenomenological Chronology (2000), in addition to her writings on Hölderlin and many articles in French, English, and German on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Derrida, Gadamer, Patocka, and others. She has held posts at the Université de Paris I and the Université de Paris XII (Denis-Diderot). She is now professor of philosophy at the Université de Nice, and is attached to the Phenomenological Seminar, a research unit of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. (dastur@club-internet.fr)

Monique David-Ménard is a Director of Research at the Université de Paris VII (Denis-Diderot), in addition to her post as a teacher of philosophy at "khâgne" level, and her work as a psychoanalyst. She is the author of Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: Body and Language in Psychoanalysis (1989), and La folie dans la raison pure: Kant Lecteur de Swedenborg (1990) of which one chapter has been translated as "Kant, The Law, and Desire" in Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant, ed. Robin Schott (1997). She is also the author of Les Constructions de l'universel: Psychanalyse, philosophie, PUF (1997) and of Tout le plaisir et pour moi (2000). (mdm01paris@aol.com)

Penelope Deutscher teaches in the Department of Philosophy, Australian National University. She is the author of Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (1997) and co-editor, with Kelly Oliver, of Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman (1999). The Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray is forthcoming in 2001. (Penelope.Deutscher@anu.edu.au)

Lisabeth During taught philosophy for many years at the University of New South Wales and other Australian universities. She has published on Breton, Hegel, George Eliot, Freud, and Artaud. During lives in New York and is currently completing a book entitled Chastity-Test: Philosophy, Literature and Sexual Virtue. (lisabethduring@earthlink.net.)

Rico Franses is a New York-based scholar who holds a Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute, University of London, in Byzantine Art History. He is the author of "Post-Monumentality, Frame, Grid, Space, Quilt," in The Rhetoric of the Frame: Essays On The Boundaries Of The Artwork, ed. Paul Duro (1996). (rfranses@webspan.net)

Emily Grosholz is Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies and Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, and a Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Her Leibniz's Science of the Rational (co-authored with Elhanan Yakira) appeared in 1999 in the Studia Leibnitiana monograph series, and The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge (co-edited with Herbert Breger) in 2000 in the Synthese Library. She is completing a book on the philosophy of mathematics, and is in...