CONTRIBUTORSbooks areGiving an Account of Oneself(2005) andPrecarious Life: The Power of Mourning
and Violence(2004).
Job Cohenis Mayor of Amsterdam, a post he has held since January 15, 2001. Before
that time, he was State Secretary of the Dutch Ministry of Justice, dealing chiefly with
immigration, under Prime Minister Wim Kok. Prior to his entry into politics as a member
of the Labor Party (PvdA), he was Professor of Methods and Techniques in the Faculty
of Law of Maastricht University, and then the university’s Rector Magnificus. In 2005,
Timemagazine awarded him the title ‘‘European Hero.’’
William E. Connollyis Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at The Johns Hopkins University,
where he teaches political theory. His earlier bookThe Terms of Political Discourse(1993)
won the Lippincott award for ‘‘a book of outstanding merit that is still significant after a
time span of at least fifteen years.’’ His recent publications includePluralism(2005),
Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed(2002), andWhy I Am Not A Secularist(2000).
Veena Dasis Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at The Johns Hopkins University, where she
teaches in the Department of Anthropology. She is a Foreign Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Third World Academy of Sciences. She has pub-
lished widely on questions of social suffering and violence. The last two books she has
authored areLife and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary(2006) andCritical
Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India(1995).
Marcel Detienneis Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at The Johns Hopkins University.
Some of his recent books are:A Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece(2006),Les
Grecs et nous(2005),Comment eˆtre autochtone: Du pur athenien au franc ̧ais racine(2003),
Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context(2002), andComparer l’incomparable
(2000).
Thierry de Duveis Professor of Aesthetics and Art History at the University of Lille 3.
His work has long revolved around Marcel Duchamp’s readymades and their implications
for aesthetics; it is now finding a new center of interest in the work of Manet. He is the
author of several books, includingKant after Duchamp(1996). He curated the exhibition
‘‘Voici—100 ans d’art contemporain’’ at the Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts in 2000, as
well as the Belgian pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale, shared by Sylvie Eyberg and
Vale ́rie Mannaerts.
Stefanos Geroulanosis a doctoral candidate in intellectual history at The Johns Hopkins
Humanities Center and is currently completing his dissertation, ‘‘Man under Erasure:
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