Stoler Ann Laura :
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, Founding Director of its Institute for Critical Social Inquiry since 2014, and one of the founding editors of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002), Along the Archival Grain (2009), and Duress (2016).Gourgouris Stathis :
Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece; Does Literature Think?: Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era; Lessons in Secular Criticism; and Ενδεχομένως αταξίες (Contingent Disorders). His most recent book is The Perils of the One.Lezra Jacques :
Jacques Lezra is Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are República salvaje (2019), On the Nature of Marx’s Things (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), and Contra todos los fueros de la muerte
(2016).
Apter Emily :
Emily Apter is Silver Professor of Comparative Literature and French at New York University. She has published extensively in translation theory and is the author of Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (Verso, 2013) and co-editor with Jacques Lezra and Michael Wood of the Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton University Press, 2014). Her most recent book is Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse and the Impolitic (Verso, 2018).Balibar Étienne :
Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at Université de Paris X-Nanterre; Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine; and Visiting Professor of French at Columbia University. His many books in English include Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology (Fordham, 2016), Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (Columbia, 2016); Equaliberty: Political Essays (Duke, 2014); We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton, 2003); Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002); Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy before and after Marx (Routledge, 1994), and two important co-authored books, Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (with Immanuel Wallerstein; Verso, 1988) and Reading Capital: The Complete Edition (with Louis Althusser and others; Verso, 2016).Bernstein J. M. :
J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His writings include The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (1992), Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory (1995), Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2002), and Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (2006). His most recent book is Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury (2015). He is working on a manuscript with the tentative title Human Rights: On the Foundations of Ecological Socialism, from which the essay in this volume is drawn.Butler Judith :
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of several books, including The Force of Non-Violence, forthcoming with Verso in 2020. She is currently a Co-director of the International Association of Critical Theory Programs.David-Ménard Monique :
Monique David-Ménard is a psychoanalyst and philosopher. She has taught at the Université de Paris VII–Diderot and at universities throughout North and South America and Europe, and she maintains a private psychoanalysis practice. Her publications include L’hystérique entre Freud et Lacan: Corps et langage en psychanalyse (Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: Body and Language in Psychoanalysis) and Deleuze et la psychanalyse: L’altercation.Elsayed Hanan :
Hanan Elsayed is Associate Professor of French and Arabic at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her research interests include Islam and history in Francophone literature from the Arab world, twentieth-century French literature and thought, and the French colonial legacy. She is the author of L’histoire sacrée de l’Islam dans la fiction maghrébine.Fassin Didier :
Didier Fassin is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He holds an Annual Chair at the Collège de France. He is recently the author of Life: A Critical User’s Manual (Polity) and The Will to Punish (Oxford University Press).Gourgouris Stathis :
Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece; Does Literature Think?: Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era; Lessons in Secular Criticism; and Ενδεχομένως αταξίες (Contingent Disorders). His most recent book is The Perils of the One.Harcourt Bernard :
Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, and Director d’Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author most recently of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books, 2018) and an editor of the work of Michel Foucault.Lezra Jacques :
Jacques Lezra is Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are República salvaje (2019), On the Nature of Marx’s Things (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), and Contra todos los fueros de la muerte
(2016).
Maniglier Patrice :
Patrice Maniglier is Maître de Conférences in the Philosophy Department of Paris Nanterre University. He has written on Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Badiou, and Latour. He is the author of La vie énigmatique des signes: Saussure et la naissance du structuralisme, Foucault va au cinéma, and La philosophie qui se fait.Montag Warren :
Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles. His most recent books include Althusser and His Contemporaries (Duke University Press, 2013) and The Other Adam Smith (Stanford University Press, 2014).Ophir Adi :
Adi Ophir is a Visiting Professor at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University and Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. Among his recent works are Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile, coauthored with Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Oxford University Press, 2018); Divine Violence: Two Essays on God and Disaster (Van Leer Institute, 2013); and The One-State Condition (coauthored with Ariella Azoulay; Stanford University Press 2012).Robbins Bruce :
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. His latest books are The Beneficiary (2017) and Cosmopolitanisms (2017), which was coedited with Paulo Lemos Horta. He is also the director of a short documentary titled “Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists.”Stoler Ann Laura :
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, Founding Director of its Institute for Critical Social Inquiry since 2014, and one of the founding editors of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002), Along the Archival Grain (2009), and Duress (2016).Wilder Gary :
Gary Wilder is Professor in Anthropology and French in the Graduate Center at City University of New York. His publications include The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (2005).Ann Laura Stoler (Edited By)
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research where she directs the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. Her most recent book is Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Duke, 2016).
Stathis Gourgouris (Edited By)
Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Perils of the One (Columbia, 2019).
Jacques Lezra (Edited By)
Jacques Lezra is Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of California—Riverside. His most recent book is On the Nature of Marx’s Things: Translation as Necrophilology (Fordham, 2018).
