Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen teaches philosophy at McMaster University. He is author of Truth in Philosophy, Knowledge and Civilization, and Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience.
Wayne Andersen, painter, corporate art consultant, and architect of the King Khaled Mosque in Riyadh, is professor emeritus of art and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his many books are German Artists and Hitler's Mind, The Ara Pacis of Augustus and Mussolini, Picasso's Brothel, The Youth of Cézanne and Zola, Manet: The Picnic and the Prostitute, and, recently completed, The Loss of Art: The Legacy of Marcel Duchamp.
Frank Ankersmit is professor of intellectual history at Groningen University, fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of the Sciences, and editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of History. His books in English translation include Sublime Historical Experience, Aesthetic Politics, Narrative Logic, History and Tropology, Historical Representation, and The Reality Effect in the Writing of History.
Michael Baxandall received the Mitchell Prize in art history for his book The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany. His other books include Words for Pictures, Patterns of Intention, Shadows and Enlightenment, Giotto and the Orators, Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence, and Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy. He is emeritus professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and emeritus professor of the history of the classical tradition at the Warburg Institute, London.
Roberto Bolaño (1953 – 2003) was honored in 2004 by the First Conference of Latin American Authors as "the most important literary discovery of our time." His novels in English translation include The Savage Detectives, for which he received the Rómulo Gallegos Prize; Distant Star; By Night in Chile; and Last Evenings on Earth. A collection of his poems, Los perros románticos, appeared in 2000, and a collection of his nonfictional prose, Entre paréntesis, was published posthumously.
Chris Andrews is the author of Poetry and Cosmogony: Science in the Writing of Queneau and Ponge and of two books of poetry, Cut Lunch and Septuor. His translation of Bolaño's Distant Star received the Premio Valle Inclán Prize.
János Boros is codirector of the Central European Pragmatist Forum and professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Pécs. His books include The Philosophy of Democracy and (as editor) Psychology and Criminal Justice. His contribution to the Winter 2005 issue of Common Knowledge, "Philosophy Should Not Be Just an Academic Discipline," was coauthored with Hilary Putnam. [End Page 349]
Peter Burke, professor of cultural history at Cambridge University and fellow of Emmanuel College, is the author of some dozen books, including What Is Cultural History?, A Social History of Knowledge, Eyewitnessing, History and Social Theory, The French Historical Revolution, The Fabrication of Louis XIV, Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe, The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy, and The Art of Conversation.
William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and the author or editor of books on Pound, Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Lionel Trilling. His most recent is One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way.
Helen Cooper, professor of medieval and Renaissance English literature at Cambridge University and a fellow of Magdalene College, is the author of The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare, Pastoral: Medieval into Renaissance, and The Structure of the "Canterbury Tales."
Erica Johnson Debeljak, an American writer, contributes regularly to newspapers and journals in Slovenia, where she now lives. She is the author of Tujka v hi&scaroni domačinov (Foreigner in the House of Natives) and translator of Barren Harvest: Selected Poems by Dane Zajc.
Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy; Democracy on Trial; Public Man, Private Woman; Women and War; Real Politics; Power Trips and Other Journeys; and Meditations on Modern Political Thought.
Luis Garcia is the author of Poems for Dinner, Beans...
