Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context

Contributors

Contributors Karen Bassi is Professor of Classics and Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Acting Like Men, Gender, Drama and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (University of Michigan Press, 1998) and articles on Greek literature and history writing. Her areas of interest include the philosophy of history, visual and material culture, and literary and cultural theory. She is currently writing an article on Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound in connection with the US torture debate and is finishing a book on visual experience and the meaning of the past in Greek narrative. Jonathan Beecher teaches European Intellectual History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His publications include intellectual biographies of two major figures in the French socialist tradition: Charles Fourier: The Visionary and his World (University of California Press, 1987) and Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism (University of California Press, 2001). He is currently working on a study of European intellectuals (including Lamartine, Sand, Tocqueville, Proudhon, Herzen, Marx, and Flaubert) and 1848. Karl Clausberg was until 2003 Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the Universität Lüneburg. His major publications include: Ausdruck, Ausstrahlung, Aura: Synästhesien der Beseelung im Medienzeitalter (Bad Honnef: Hippocampus, 2007, with Elize Bisanz and Cornelius Weiller); Zwischen den Sternen: Lichtbildarchive. Was Einstein und Uexküll, Benjamin und das Kino der Astronomie des 19. Jahrhunderts verdanken (Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2006); Neuronale Kunstgeschichte : Selbstdarstellung als Gestaltungsprinzip, (Springer, Vienna, 1999); Der Erfurter Codex Aureus in Pommersfelden (Ms 249/2869) Biblische Historie im politischen Gewand? (Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1986); Die Wiener Genesis: Eine kunstwissenschaftliche Bilderbuchgeschichte, (Fischer-KunststückTaschenbuch , Frankfurt/Main, 1984), and in Japanese translation, Miller 7:Whats minta 1 9/3/08 5:00 PM Page 359 360 Contributors Tokyo 1999/2000; Kosmische Visionen: Mystische Weltbilder von Hildegard von Bingen bis heute, DuMont-Kunsttaschenbuch Nr. 98, Köln 1980; and ZEPPELIN: Die Geschichte eines unwahrscheinlichen Erfolges, (Schirmer & Mosel, Munich, 1979). Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Her recent publications include Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006), and a collaborative volume, Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press,2007).Aspecial issue of PMLA, “Remapping Genre,” co-edited with Bruce Robbins, appeared in October 2007. Britta Duelke is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Frobenius Institute, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany). She has conducted long-term anthropological fieldwork in Central and Northern Australia focusing on the imaginaries of tradition and modernity. Her work covers a variety of subjects ranging from an outline of an anthropology of blame to contingency in narratives, emotional expressions, and the “naked body” as a metaphor of social demarcation. Her recent publications include: Grenzziehung des Sozialen im indigenen Australien , in: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (ed.): Die Natur der Gesellschaft. (Frankfurt am Main, New York: Campus, 2008); Über eine Thematisierung des Möglichen, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 130 (1): 99-125 (2005); (2008); “Merkwuerdig bleibt nur … die Verwandtschaft zwischen Ausdruck und Handlung”: Lachen und Weinen in einer nordaustralischen Perspektive, in: August Nitschke, Justin Stagl und Dieter R. Bauer (eds): Lachen und Weinen: Gesten, Sprachen und Tabus der verschiedenen Kulturen innerhalb einer historischen Anthropologie. (Vienna: Böhlau, forthcoming). Ruth HaCohen holds the Artur Rubinstein Chair of Musicology at the Hebrew University. In her books and articles she seeks to explicate the role played by Western music in shaping and reflecting wider cultural and historical contexts and processes, extending from baroque music to modern one, with a special emphasis on the relations between Christian and Ashkenazi-Jewish music. She is currently completing with Prof. Reinhard Strohm a study entitled The Classical Ideology: Music and Culture of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Ashgate, 2009). Miller 7:Whats minta 1 9/3/08 5:00 PM Page 360 Contributors 361 David Couzens Hoy is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also held the UC Presidential Chair of Philosophy from 2001 through 2005, and contributed research funds that subsidized the present volume as well as three international conferences on Temporality : one in 2003 in Budapest, a second in 2004 in Berlin, and a third in 2005 in Santa Cruz. László Kontler is Professor of History at Central European University in Budapest. His broader field of interest is early-modern European intellectual history, recently focusing on translation and...