CONTRIBUTORSAntihumanism and Philosophical Anthropology in French Thought (1925–1950).’’ He is
also co-translating Georges Canguilhem’sKnowledge of Life.
Ju ̈rgen Habermasis Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-
University in Frankfurt am Main and former director of its Institute for Social Research.
He is also Permanent Visiting Professor at Northwestern University. The most recent of
his many books in English translation areTruth and Justification(2005) andReligion and
Rationality: Essays on Reason, God, and Modernity(2002).
Werner Hamacher is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main and Distinguished Global Professor at New York
University. He is the author ofPleroma: Reading in Hegel(1999) andPremises:Essays on
Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan(1997).
Yolande Jansenteaches history of philosophy and metaphysics in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently involved in a postdoctoral
research project entitled ‘‘Laı ̈cite ́’s (French Secularism’s) Interactions among France, Al-
geria, and Turkey’’ within the larger research project The Future of the Religious Past,
sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and she is the
author ofStuck in a Revolving Door: Secularism, Assimilation, and Democratic Pluralism
(2006).
Kate Khatibis a doctoral candidate at The Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center.
She is currently developing a dissertation project on surrealism, in both its historical and
present incarnations.
Ernesto Laclauholds a chair in political theory at the University of Essex. Among the
books he has authored areOn Populist Reason(2005),Emancipation(s)(1996), andNew
Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time(1990). He is the co-author, with Chantal
Mouffe, ofHegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics(1985).
Claude Lefortwas a founding member of Socialisme ou barbarie, and later of Informa-
tion et Liasons Ouvrie`res. He taught at the University of Sa ̃o Paulo, the Sorbonne, and
the E ́cole des Hautes E ́tudes en Sciences Sociales. Among his books to appear in English
areWriting: The Political Test(2000) andThe Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureau-
cracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism(1986).
Bruce Lincolnis Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago.
Among his recent books areHoly Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11
(2003) andTheorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship(2000).
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