Golomb Yaʻaḳov - Nietzsche and Jewish Culture

Steven E. Aschheim teaches German Cultural and Intellectual History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German-Jewish Consciousness (1982), The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany (1992) and Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontation with National Socialism and other Crises (1996).

Hubert Cancik teaches Classics at Eberhard-Karls-Universitt, Tbingen. He is the author of Untersuchungen zur lyrischen Kunst des P. Papinius Statius (1965), Grundzge der hethitischen und alttestamentlichen Geschichtschreibung (1976), Nietzsches Antike (1995) and has edited Markus-Philologie (1984) and Handbuch religionswissenschaftlicher Grundbegriffe (1988).

Stanley Corngold is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory (1986), Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form (1988), Borrowed Lives (with Irene Giersing, 1991) and Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature (forthcoming).

Sander L. Gilman is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. He is a cultural and literary historian and the author or editor of over forty books, the most recent in English on Jews in Todays Germany (1995). He is the president of the Modern Language Association.

J acob Golomb teaches philosophy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and is the philosophical editor of the Hebrew University Magnes Press. Among his books are Nietzsches Enticing Psychology of Power (1989), Introduction to Philosophies of Existence (1990) and In Search of Authenticity from Kierkegaard to Camus (1995).

Peter Heller is Professor Emeritus in German and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York in Buffalo, USA. Publications on Nietzsche and Freud include Von den ersten und letzten Dingen: Studien und Kommentar zu einer Aphorismenreihe von F. Nietzsche (1972) and Studies on Nietzsche (1980).

William J. McGrath is Professor of History at the University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of Dionysian Art and Populist politics in Austria (1974) and Freuds Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteria (1986).

Paul Mendes-Flohr is Professor of Jewish Intellectual History and Modern Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew University. He is the author of From Mysticism to Dialogue. Martin Bubers Transformation of German Social Thought (1989) and Divided Passions. Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity (1990), and is the co-editor of the new twenty-one volume Jewish edition of Martin Bubers Collected Works.

Weaver Santaniello is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University, Berks Campus. She is the author of Nietzsche, God, and the Jews (1994) and is currently co-editing a collection of essays on Nietzsche and depth psychology.

Gary Shapiro is Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of Nietzschen Narratives (1989), Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women (1991) and Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel (1995).

Josef Simon is the director of philosophisches Seminar A, University of Bonn. He is the author of Das Problem der Sprache bei Hegel (1966), Sprache und Raum (1969), Philosophie und linguistische Theorie (1971), Wahrheit als Freiheit (1978), Sprachphilosophie (1981) and Philosophie des Zeichens (1989).

Yirmiyahu Yovel is Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and at the New School for Social Research, New York, and is chair of the Jerusalem Spinoza Institute. Among his books are Kant and the Philosophy of History (1980), Spinoza and Other Heretics (1989) and Dark Riddle: Hegel and Nietzsche on Judaism (1996).