CONTRIBUTORSPaola Marratiis Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, where she directs the steering committee of the Program for the Study of Women,
Gender, and Sexuality. She is also Directrice de Programme de Re ́cherche at the Colle`ge
International de Philosophie. She is the author ofGenesis and Trace: Derrida Reading
Husserl and Heidegger(2005) andDeleuze: Philosophie et cinema(2003, forthcoming in an
expanded English edition). She is currently completing a book project entitledThe Event
and the Ordinary: On the Philosophy of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze.
Ste ́phane Moseswas Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University from 1971 until 1997. He is Corresponding Member of the German Academy for Language and Literature and holds a Doctor honoris causa from the University of Tu ̈bingen. Among his books are:Au-delade la guerre: Trois E ́tudes sur Levinas(2004),
Walter Benjamin and the Spirit of Modernity(2003),L’Ange de l’histoire: Rosenzweig, Benja-
min, Scholem(1992), andSystem and Revelation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig
(1992).
Chantal Mouffeis Professor of Political Theory at the University of Westminster. Among
her books areOn the Political(2005),The Democratic Paradox(2000),The Return of the
Political(1993), and, co-authored with Ernesto Laclau,Hegemony and Socialist Strategy:
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics(1985).
Jean-Luc Nancyis Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University Marc Bloch,
Strasbourg. The most recent of his many books to be published in English areThe Ground
of the Image(2005) andA Finite Thinking(2003).
M. B. Prangeris Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Amsterdam.
In his publications, which are mainly on medieval monasticism, he focuses on the rela-
tionship between religion and literature. His most recent book isThe Artificiality of Chris-
tianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism(2003), and he is currently completing a book
on Augustine and Henry James, provisionally entitledAugustinian Soundings.
Bettina Pratorecently completed her Ph.D. in political theory at the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley, with a dissertation on the politics of responsibility, melancholy, and
trauma in contemporary Israel/Palestine. In addition, she is an international consultant
specializing in postconflict development interventions and gender-equality work in the
Middle East.
Rafael Sa ́nchezis a Research Fellow in the NWO-sponsored Pionier Program ‘‘Religion,
Media, and the Public Sphere’’ at the University of Amsterdam. His publications have
focused on media, mass politics, populism, and spirit mediumship. He is currently com-
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