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HAUKE BRUNKHORST is Professor of Sociology at the University of Flensburg. His most recent books are Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions. An Evolutionary Perspective (2014) and Das doppelte Gesicht Europas—Zwischen Kapitalismus und Demokratie (2014).

RAINER FORST is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Co-Director of the Research Cluster on the Formation of Normative Orders. His major publications are Contexts of Justice (2002), The Right to Justification (2012), Toleration in Conflict (2013), Justification and Critique (2013), The Power of Tolerance (with Brown, 2014) and Justice, Democracy and the Right to Justification (2014).

NORBERT FREI holds a chair in modern history at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. His recent books include Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik (with Conze, Hayes, and Zimmermann, 2010) and “Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart. Politik, Kultur und Gesellschaft” (in Brenner 2012).

HARALD HAGEMANN is Professor of Economics at the University of Hohenheim. He is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. His main research covers growth, technological change and employment, and business cycle theory. He is Chairman of the Committee for the Theodor Heuss Professorship.

AXEL HONNETH is Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, and Columbia University in New York, as well as the Director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main. His recent publications in English include The I in We. Studies in the Theory of Recognition (2012 [2010]) and Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2014).

URS JAEGGI is a sociologist, writer, painter, and sculptor. He was a professor of sociology and social philosophy in Bern, Bochum, New York, and Berlin from 1964–93. His publications include numerous novels, short stories, and essays as well as important scientific books, and since 1985 his artwork has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

STEPHAN KLASEN is Professor of Economics at the University of Göttingen and has held positions at the World Bank, King’s College (Cambridge UK) and the University of Munich. His publications include Vulnerablity to Poverty; Theory, Measurement and Determinants, with Case Studies from [End Page 737] Thailand and Vietnam (coedited with Waibel, 2012) and Absolute Poverty and Global Justice (coedited with Mack, Schramm, and Pogge, 2009).

KARL-HEINZ KOHL is Director of the Frobenius-Institute at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. His publications include The End of Anthropology? (coedited with Jebens, 2011).

HEINZ D. KURZ is Professor of Economics at the University of Graz and Director of the Graz Schumpeter Centre. He is the author of Theory of Production. A Long-period Analysis (with Salvadori, 1995) as well as several other books and numerous articles.

CHRISTOPH MENKE is Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main. His book publications in English include The Sovereignty of Art. Aesthetic Negativity after Adorno and Derrida (1998), Reflections of Equality (2006), Tragic Play. Tragedy. Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett (2009), and Force: A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology (2012).

BERTRAM SCHEFOLD is Professor of Economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main. He has published more than 40 books and 250 articles on economic theory and its history, and energy policy, and has been the subject of two festschrifts.

ALBRECHT WELLMER, Professor Emeritus at the Free University of Berlin, has taught philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, Toronto, New York, Constance and Berlin. His publications include Critical Theory of Society (1971), The Persistence of Modernity (1991), Endgames (1998), Sprachphilosophie (2004), and Versuch über Musik und Sprache (2009). [End Page 738]

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