Difficulties of Ethical Life

Contributors

Contributors Debra Bergoffen is professor of philosophy and affiliated with the women ’s studies and cultural studies programs at George Mason University. She is the author of The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies , Erotic Generosities (SUNY Press, 1996) and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of numerous articles on Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean-Paul Sartre. She is currently working on a book on genocidal rape and human rights titled Between Rape and Justice: Toward a Politics of the Vulnerable Body. Robert Bernasconi is Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentiethcentury European philosophy and on social and political philosophy. He is the author of The Question of Language in Heidegger’s History of Being (Prometheus, 1989) and Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (Humanities Press, 1993). He has also written a number of essays and edited a number of books on race. Peg Birmingham is professor of philosophy at DePaul University. She specializes in social and political theory as well as feminist theory. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (Indiana University Press, 2006), the coeditor of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (Kok Pharos, 1995), the cotranslator of Dominique Janicaud’s The Powers of the Rational (Indiana 239 University Pres, 1994), and the author of many articles on Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Julia Kristeva, and Michel Foucault in such journals as Research in Phenomenology, the Graduate Journal of Philosophy, and Hypatia. Simon Critchley is professor and chair of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of many books, most recently Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (Verso, 2007). The Book of Dead Philosophers is forthcoming from Vintage. Günter Figal is professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds the Husserl and Heidegger Chair. He is also the past holder of the prestigious Cardinal Mercier Chair at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He is the author of many books on the history of philosophy, including Martin Heidegger: Phänomenologie der Freiheit (Athenaum, 1988), Nietzsche: Eine philosophische Einführung (Reclam, 1999), Der Sinn des Verstehens (Reclam, 1996), and Gegenständlichkeit : Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie (Mohr Siebeck, 2006), and the coeditor of Hermeneutische Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten (Mohr Siebeck, 2000). His publications in English include For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife: Politics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics (SUNY Press, 1998). Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has served as a visiting professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris–Sorbonne and the University of Nice. He is the author of over twenty books on European philosophy and literature and has edited or coedited fifteen more. He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin . His most recent work in philosophy is a trilogy entitled Philosophy at the Limit, composed of On Stories (Routledge, 2002), The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2001), and Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness (Routledge, 2003). Ladelle McWhorter holds the James Thomas Professorship in Philosophy and also is professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (Indiana University Press, 1999) and more than two dozen articles on Michel Foucault, Georges Bataille, Luce Irigaray, and race theory. Her new book on Foucault and 240 Contributors racism is currently in press with Indiana University Press and will be available in early 2009. Eduardo Mendieta is associate professor of philosophy and director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at Stony Brook University . He is also the executive editor of Radical Philosophy Review. He has most recently published a book of interviews with Angela Y. Davis entitled Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Seven Stories Press, 2005), as well as a book of interviews with Richard Rorty entitled Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself (Stanford University Press, 2005). He currently is at work on a book on war and philosophy. Dennis J. Schmidt is Liberal Arts Research Professor of philosophy, comparative literature, and...