Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors A n d r e w a r a t o is the Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political Social Theoiy at the Graduate Faculty ofthe New School University. His books include ConstitutionMaking Under Occupation: The Politics ofImposedRevolutioninIraq (2009). s e y i a b e n h a b i b is Eugene Meyer Professor ofPolitical Science and Philosophy at Yale University. A recipi­ ent ofthe Ernst Bloch and Leopold Lucas prizes, her latest book is Dignityin Adversity: HumanRights in Troubled Times (2011). r i c h a e d j. b e r n s t e i n is Vera List Professor ofPhilosophy at the New School for Social Research. His recent books include ThePragmatic Turn (2010), TheAbuse ofEvil (2006), Radical Evil (2002), Freud and the LegacyofMoses (1998), and HannahArendt and theJewish Question (1996). His forthcoming book, Violence: ThinkingwithoutBanisters, is to be published by Polity Press. SIM ON c r i t c h l e y is HansJonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His many books include VeryLittle... AlmostNothing (1997), InfinitelyDemanding: Ethics ofCommitment, Politics ofResistance (2007), TheBook ofDeadPhilosophers (2008), and TheFaith oftheFaithless: Experiments in Political Theology(2012). h e n t d e v r i e s is Director ofthe Humanities Center, Professor of Philosophy, and Russ Family Chair in the Zanvyl Krieger School ofArts and Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. His publications include Minimal Theologies: Critiques ofSecularReason inAdorno andLevinas (2005) and Religion Beyond a Concept (editor, 2008). B e r n a r d f l y n n is an adjunct faculty member at the graduate and the under­ graduate New School for Social Research. He is the author ofMetaphysics (1992) and ThePhilosophy ofClaudeLefort (2006), and coeditor ofMerleau-Ponty and thePossibilities ofPhilosophy (2009). He is currently writing a book entitled TheAdventures ofthe Event. p e t e r e . G o r d o n is Amabel B.James Professor ofHistoiy and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. His publications include ContinentalDivide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (2010) and The ModernistImagination: Critical Theory and IntellectualHistoryEssaysin HonorofMartin Jay (coedited, 2008). He is currently writ­ ing a book on secularization and social thought in the twentieth century. s t a t h i s g o u r g o u r t s is Director ofthe Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is the author ofDream Nation (1996), Does Literature Think? (2003), and Lessonsin Secular Criticism (2013), and editor o f Freud and Fundamentalism (2010). A n d r e w f . m a r c h is Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University. He is the author ofIslam and Liberal Citizenship (2009) and numerous articles on Islamic law, Islamic political thought, and encounters between Islam and liberal­ ism. He is working on a book on sover­ eignty in Islamic political theology. a v i s h a i m a r g a l i t , Shulman Professor of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, received the Spinoza Lens Prize in 2001 for a significant contribu­ tion to the normative debate on society. A founder ofPeace Now, his books and articles address the philosophy of language, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. a n n i k a t h t e m is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Her research focuses on critical theoiy, the relation between religion and politics, and feminist and queer theoiy. She is currently completing a book manu­ script on the temporality oftheological tropes in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin. m i g u e l v a t t e r is Professor ofPolitics at the University of New South Wales, and recurrent visiting professor at the Institute de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago. His recent publi­ cations include Crediting God: Religion and Sovereigntyin theAge ofGlobal Capitalism (editor, 2010). He has recently completed a book manuscript on biopolitics and civil society. ...