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Frank Ankersmit teaches intellectual history and philosophy of history at Groningen University, The Netherlands. His writing explores the boundaries between aesthetics, political philosophy, and philosophy of history. He has written 14 books—the most recent in English is Sublime Historical Experience (2005)—coedited 10 books, and published more than 200 articles. He founded and is chief editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of History, which aims to reestablish contact between philosophy of language and philosophy of history.

Annette Baier taught philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and now lives in retirement in her native New Zealand. She has written about ethics, and her second book about David Hume, Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume, will be published in 2008.

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of several books including The Abuse of Evil: The Corruption of Politics and Religion since 9/11 (2005), Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation (2002), The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizon of Modernity/ Postmodernity (1991), and Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis (1983). He is currently working on a book dealing with pragmatic themes in twentieth-century analytic and continental philosophy.

Nicholas M. Gaskill is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published articles on the intersections of pragmatism and nineteenth-century American literature, and he is currently writing a dissertation on the literary, historical, and philosophical careers of color at the turn of the twentieth century.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature at Stanford University (PhD, University of Konstanz, 1971). Among his areas of interest are medieval culture, continental philosophy, the aesthetics of sports, and the histories of literatures in the romance languages. He holds five honorary PhDs from universities in South America, North America, and Europe, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his (widely translated) books are In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time (1997), Production of Presence (2004), and In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006). Forthcoming in 2009 (first in German) is Reading for the "Stimmung." During 2009–10, he will be a Fellow at the Siemens Foundation in Munich, finishing a book whose working title is Age of Latency: the Post-1945 Decade. [End Page 187]

Jürgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt. He is the author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (1987), The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1991), The Divided West (2006), Time of Transitions (2006), and numerous other books.

E. D. Hirsch Jr. is University Professor Emeritus of Education and Humanities at the University of Virginia and Chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation. His most recent book is The Knowledge Deficit (2006).

Günter Leypoldt is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Mainz at Germersheim, Germany. He has published on literary transcendentalism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century aesthetics, twentieth-century literary and cultural theory, and 1980s neorealist fiction.

David Rigsbee is the author of six collections of poems, including Cloud Journal (2008) and The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems (2008). He coedited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry (2001) and is the author of critical works on Carolyn Kizer (1990) and Joseph Brodsky (1999). He is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Commission on the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Academy of American Poets.

Jeffrey Stout is Professor of Religion at Princeton University, where he is also associated with the departments of philosophy and politics. His most recent books are Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein (2003) and Democracy and Tradition (2004). His current projects include a book on religion and film and a book on grassroots democracy.

Andrzej Szahaj is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities at Nicholas Copernicus University, Torún, Poland. He has been a visiting...

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