Contributors
- Contributors
Gavin Arnall is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his PhD and MA in comparative literature from Princeton University in New Jersey and his BA (summa cum laude) in the College Scholar Program and philosophy from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His work has appeared in several edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including Theory and Event, Critical Inquiry, and the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. His translation of Emilio de Ípola's Althusser, the Infinite Farewell is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Andrés Claro (Santiago de Chile, 1968) is an essayist and university professor. He teaches in the doctorate in philosophy (aesthetics) at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, and has been visiting professor in universities in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. He undertook his postgraduate studies in philosophy and literature at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), where he worked under the direction of J. Derrida, and at Oxford University, where he completed a D. Phil. in literature. To a series of essays on poetics, theory of language and culture—most recently [End Page 265] the book Imágenes de mundo (World Images, 2016)—he adds two major books: La Inquisición y la Cábala, un capítulo de la diferencia entre ontología y exilio (The Inquisition and the Kabbalah, a chapter on the difference between ontology and exile, 1996; 2nd. ed., 2009) and Las Vasijas Quebradas, cuatro variaciones sobre la 'tarea del traductor' (Broken Vessels, four variations on "the translator's task," 2012). He has published collections of poems and literary translations from various languages. He divides his work between Paris and Santiago, combining research, teaching, and writing.
D. J. S. Cross is a FONDECYT postdoctoral fellow at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. His current work, of which his contribution to this issue is a part, centers on the question of style in Deleuze and Derrida.
Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer is professor of philosophy at Alberto Hurtado University, in Santiago, Chile. He works on modern philosophy (especially Kantian) and contemporary philosophy (especially neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, and deconstruction). His publications include a study on pure sensibility in Kant (La formation des formes, Galilée, 2008), a collection of essays on Jean-Luc Nancy (Chances de la pensée—À partir de Jean-Luc Nancy), and an essay on the concept of "living being" (On Time, Being and Hunger: Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life, Fordham University Press, 2012).
Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His books include Die hybride Wissenschaft (Metzler, 1973); System und Metaphorik in der Philosophie von Georges Bataille (Lang, 1978); The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection (Harvard University Press, 1986); Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida (Harvard University Press, 1994); The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man (Harvard University Press, 1998); Of Minimal Things: Studies on the Notion of Relation (Stanford University Press, 1999); The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Esthetic (Stanford University Press, 2003); Views and Interviews: On "Deconstruction" in America (Davies Group, 2006); The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy (Stanford University [End Page 266] Press, 2007); Europe, or the Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept (Stanford University Press, 2009); Un Arte Muy Fragile. Sobre la Retorica de Aristoteles, trans. Rogenio Gonzalez (Ediciones Metales Pesados, 2010); The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation, (Fordham University Press, 2011); Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology (Stanford University Press, 2012); Geophilosophy: On Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's What Is Philosophy? (Northwestern University Press, 2014); Deconstruction, Its Force Its Violence (SUNY Press, 2016). His latest book is Persuasion, Reflection, Judgment: Ancillae Vitae (Indiana University Press, 2017).
Miriam Jerade is an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. She has finished her first book on violence in Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. She...
