Notes on Contributors

Ulrich Beck is professor of sociology at both the University of Munich and the London School of Economics. Among his books are Reflexive Modernization, Risk Society, Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk, The Reinvention of Politics, Individualization, and Democracy without Enemies. He is a regular contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Patrick Camiller is the English translator of Ulrich Beck's What Is Globalization? and The Brave New World of Work.

Hugh Kenner was a founding member of the Common Knowledge editorial board. His approximately thirty books include The Pound Era, for which he received the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa. Hugh Kenner: A Bibliography, compiled by Willard Goodwin, was published in 2001.

Jeffrey J. Kripal, the Lynette S. Autry Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, is the author of Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, which received the American Academy of Religion's History of Religions Prize, and Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. He is also coeditor of two essay collections, Vishnu on Freud's Desk and Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism.

Bruno Latour's books in English translation include We Have Never Been Modern, War of the Worlds: What about Peace?, Laboratory Life, Science in Action, The Pasteurization of France, and Aramis, or The Love of Technology, for which he received the Prix Bernard and the Prix Roberval. He is professor of science studies at the Centre de l'Innovation in Paris.

Tobie Nathan, professor of clinical psychology and psychopathology at the University of Paris VIII, is currently director of the African Great Lakes delegation of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie in Burundi. Born in Cairo, he established the first ethnopsychiatric practice in France and founded the Centre Georges Devereux. The author of more than ten scholarly books and four novels, he is also editor of the journal Ethnopsy. Devorah R. Karp is a translator of French and German, living in London.

Jeffrey M. Perl, author of Skepticism and Modern Enmity, The Tradition of Return: The Implicit History of Modern Literature, and monographs on Friedrich Schlegel, Mallarmé, and T. S. Eliot, taught for many years at Columbia University and at the University of Texas and is now professor of English literature at Bar-Ilan University. He is the founder and editor of Common Knowledge.

J. G. A. Pocock is Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and a corresponding member of the British Academy. His books include Virtue, Commerce, and History; The Machiavellian Moment; Politics, Language, and Time; The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law; and three volumes of Barbarism and Religion, for which he has received the Barzun Prize in Cultural History and the Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association. Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, a festschrift edited by Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner, appeared in 1993.

Belle Randall's books of poetry include True Love, Drop Dead Beautiful, The Orpheus Sedan, and 101 Different Ways of Playing Solitaire. She has taught in several creative writing programs, including Stanford University's.

Joanna Scott, formerly a MacArthur Fellow, is the author of the novels Tourmaline, Fading, My Parmacheene Belle, The Closest Possible Union,Arrogance, The Manikin, and Make Believe as well as the story collection Various Antidotes. She has received the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Aga Khan Award of The Paris Review, and she was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She teaches creative writing at the University of Rochester.

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is professor of anthropology at the Museo Nacional Universidade Federal in Rio de Janeiro and has held the Simón Bolívar Chair in Latin American Studies at Cambridge University. Editor of the journal Mana: Studies in Social Anthropology, his most recent book in English translation is From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society.