Notes on Contributors

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law and director of the Religion and Human Rights Project at Emory University Law School. His books include Toward an Islamic Reformation; Sudanese Criminal Law (in Arabic); and (as editor) Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa; and Universal Rights, Local Remedies. He is a recipient of the Praagprijs award of the Dutch Ethical Society.

Ulrich Beck, professor of sociology at both the University of Munich and the London School of Economics, is the author of, among other books in English translation, Reflexive Modernization, Risk Society, Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk, The Reinvention of Politics, Individualization, and Democracy without Enemies. He is a regular contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Patrick Camiller is the English translator of Ulrich Beck's What Is Globalization? and The Brave New World of Work.

János Boros is professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Pécs. A director of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, his books include The Philosophy of Democracy and (as editor) Psychology and Criminal Justice: International Review of Theory and Practice.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese holds the Eleonore Raoul Chair in the Humanities and is professor of history and women's studies at Emory University. Her books include Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South, Women and the Future of the Family, Feminism without Illusions, "Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life,"Fruits of Merchant Capital, The Origins of Physiocracy, and (as coeditor) Reconstructing History.

Ian Hacking is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Collège de France and University Professor at the University of Toronto. His books include The Social Construction of What?, Mad Travelers, Rewriting the Soul, Representing and Intervening, The Taming of Chance, The Emergence of Probability, The Logic of Statistical Inference, and Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? An earlier version of his article "Truthfulness" was delivered as the keynote address for the tenth anniversary of the founding of Green College in Vancouver.

Tova Hartman, lecturer in education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions. She is the principal founder of Shira Hadasha, an Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem where women take leading roles in services.

Alick Isaacs teaches medieval history and Jewish history at the Hebrew University and is a research fellow at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is an associate editor of Common Knowledge and is currently writing a book about prophecy.

Fleur Jaeggy's novels in English translation include S. S. Proleterka, Sweet Days of Discipline, and Last Vanities. In Italy, she has been awarded the Bagutta, Boccaccio Europa, Moravia, and Viareggio Prizes as well as, most recently, the Premio Donna Città di Roma. Ann Goldstein received the Renato Poggioli Award from PEN for her translation of Aldo Buzzi's Journey to the Land of Flies; she also has translated works by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco, and Giuseppe Genna.

William Kolbrener , senior lecturer in English literature at Bar-Ilan University, is the author of Milton's Warring Angels: A Study of Critical Engagements and coeditor of Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith (forthcoming).

Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger has been archbishop of Paris since 1981 and a member of the Académie Française since 1995. Articles by and about him appeared in the fall 1992 issue of Common Knowledge. Devorah R. Karp is a translator of French and German, living in London.

Péter Nádas is best known as the author of two novels, The End of a Family Novel, translated from Hungarian into twelve languages, and A Book of Memories, which has appeared in seven languages. His other novels in English translation are A Lovely Tale of Photography and Love. His play Burial appeared in the winter 2002 issue of Common Knowledge with an introduction by Susan Sontag. Tim Wilkinson is the translator of Éva Balázs's Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765-1800, Domokos...