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Notes on Contributors
Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is the translator of Fichtes Foundations of Natural Right (2000), Series Editor of Cambridge Hegel Translations (Cambridge University Press), and Associate Editor of the Owl of Minerva: Journal of the Hegel Society of America . His areas of research include German Idealism, the philosophy of law, and contemporary continental thought. He has published articles on a wide range of thinkers, including Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Heidegger, Adorno, and Gadamer.
Frederick C. Beiser is Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Fate of Reason (1987), Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism (1992), The Sovereignty of Reason (1996), German Idealism (2002), The Romantic Imperative (2003), Hegel (2004), Schiller as Philosopher (2005) and Diotimas Children (2009). He has edited two collections on Hegel, The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (2002), and The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (2008). He is currently finishing a book on German historicism.
Robert Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He was previously for over twenty years Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is the author of The Question of Language and Heideggers History of Being (1985), Heidegger in Question (1991), and How to Read Sartre (2006). He has published numerous articles on such figures as Kant, Hegel, Levinas, Derrida, and Fanon, and he has written extensively within the field of political philosophy and critical philosophy of race.
John W. Burbidge, FRSC, is Professor Emeritus at Trent University, Canada. He is the author of On Hegels Logic (1981), Hegel on Logic and Religion (1992), Real Process: How Logic and Chemistry Combine in Hegels Philosophy of Nature (1996), The Logic of Hegels Logic: An Introduction (2006), Hegels Systematic Contingency (2007), and The A to Z of Hegelian Philosophy (2010). He has been President of the Hegel Society of America and is currently Honorary President of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Codirector of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987), Gender Trouble (1990), Bodies That Matter (1993), The Psychic Life of Power (1997), Excitable Speech (1997), Antigones Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000), Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004), Undoing Gender (2004), Who Sings the Nation-State? (2008) (with Gayatri Spivak), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009), and Is Critique Secular? (2009) (with Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, and Saba Mahmood). She is active in Jewish Voice for Peace and is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.