Charles Bambach is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas. His books include Heidegger’s Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks (2003) and Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism (1995). He has also written variously on hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethics and the history of German philosophy. Bambach’s current book project, Doing Justice to Poetry: Heidegger, Hölderlin, Celan, and the Greek Experience of dikë, deals with the tragic aporia between ethics and justice in modern German philosophy, specifically Heidegger’s dialogue with the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Paul Celan (1920–1970).
Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Boston University, is the author of Philosophical Legacies (2008), Heidegger’s Concept of Truth (2001) and Das logische Vorurteil:Untersuchungen zur Wahrheitstheorie des frühen Heidegger (1994). He is the translator of Heidegger’s first Marburg lectures, Introduction to Phenomenological Research (2005). His recent articles on Heidegger’s thought include “Transcendental Truth and the Truth that Prevails” in Transcendental Heidegger (2007) and “Feenberg on Heidegger and Marcuse” in Techne (2006).
Bret W. Davis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (2007), translator of Martin Heidegger, Country Path Conversations (2010), co-editor of Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (with Brian Schroeder and Jason Wirth, 2010), and co-editor of Japanese Philosophyin the World (with Fujlta Masakatsu, 2005 [in Japanese]).
Jonathan Dronsfield is Reader in Theory and Philosophy of Art at the University of Reading and sits on the Executive Committee of the Forum for European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics. He is currently writing a book, Derrida and the Visual, and has published mainly on art and ethics, including most recently “Between Heidegger and Deleuze There is Never any Difference”, in French Interpretations of Heidegger (Raffoul & Pettigrew [eds], 2009); “Philosophies of Art”, in The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy (Mullarkey & Lord [eds], 2009); and “Nowhere is Aesthetics contra Ethics: Rancière the Other Side of Lyotard” in Art&Research (2008).
Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds the chair previously occupied by Martin Heidegger. His many books include The Heidegger Reader (2009), Verstehensfragen: Studien zur phänomenologisch-hermeneutischen Philosophie (2009), Zu Heidegger: Antworten und Fragen (2009), Gegenständlichkeit (currently being translated into English) (2006), For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife (1998), Der Sinn des Verstehens (1996), Heidegger zur Einführung (1992) and Martin Heidegger: Phänomenologie der Freiheit (1988).
Theodore Kisiel is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. His books include Heidegger’s Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretative Essays (2002), The Genesis of Heidegger’s “Being and Time” (1993) and Phenomenology and the Natural Sciences (with Joseph Kockelmans, 1970). Editions include Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of His Early Occasional Writings, 1910–1927 (with Thomas Sheehan, 2007) and Reading Heidegger from the Start:Essays in His Earliest Thought (with John van Buren, 1994). Translations include Martin Heidegger, History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena (1985) and Werner Marx, Heidegger and the Tradition (1971).
John T. Lysaker is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, Georgia. He is the author of Emerson and Self-Culture (2008) and You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense (2002), and the co-author of Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self (2008). Current interests include the nature of the self, the social function of art and the intersections of phenomenology, pragmatism and social theory.
Andrew J. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, Georgia. He is the author of Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling (forthcoming) as well as essays on Heidegger, Nietzsche, Derrida, James Joyce and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He is currently revising a manuscript exploring the conception of things in Heidegger’s later period, entitled The Fourfold: Thing and World in Late Heidegger. He is co-editor (with Jason Winfree) of Community and Communication: The Thought of Georges Bataille (2009), and co-translator (with Frangois Raffoul) of Heidegger’s Four Seminars (2003).
Richard Polt is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, Ohio. He is the author of The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy” (2006) and Heidegger: An Introduction (1999) and editor of Heidegger’ s “Being and Time”: Critical Essays (2006). With Gregory Fried, he has translated Heidegger’s Being and Truth (2010) and Introduction to Metaphysics (2000) and edited A Companion to Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (2001).
Hans Ruin is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University College, Sweden. He is the author of Inledning till Heideggers Varat och tiden, Herakleitos Fragment (1997) and Enigmatic Origins: Tracing the Theme of Historicity through Heidegger’s Works (1994). He is co-editor of The Past’s Presence (with M. Sa Cavalcante, 2006), Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation: Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries (with D. Zahavi and S. Heinämaa, 2003) and Fenomenologiska Perspektiv (1997). He is co-founder of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology and co-editor of Nietzsche’s collected works in Swedish. He has also translated works by Derrida, Husserl and Heidegger into Swedish.
Charles E. Scott is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. His recent books include Living With Indifference (2007), The Lives of Things (2002) and The Time of Memory (1999). He also co-edited A Companion to Heidegger’ s Contributions to Philosophy (2001).
Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Loyola University Chicago. Among his books and editions are his edition and translation of Heidegger’s Logic: The Question of Truth (2010); Becoming Heidegger:On the Trail of his Early Occasional Writings, 1910–1927 (with Theodore Kisiel, 2007); Edmund Husserl: Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931) (with Richard Palmer, 1997); Karl Rahner: The Philosophical Foundations (1987); and The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity (1986).
Timothy Stapleton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Husserl and Heidegger: The Question of a Phenomenological Beginning (1984) and editor of The Question of Hermeneutics (1994).
Daniela Vallega-Neu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University Stanislaus. She is the author of The Bodily Dimension in Thinking (2005) and Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction (2003), and co-editor of A Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (2001).
Ben Vedder is Professor of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He publishes especially in the fields of hermeneutics, metaphysics and philosophy of religion. His works include Heidegger’s Philosophy of Religion: From God to the Gods (2007) and Was ist Hermeneutik? Ein Weg von der Textdeutung zur Interpretation der Wirklichkeit (2000).
Peter Warnek is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Descent of Socrates: Self-knowledge and Cryptic Nature in the Platonic Dialogues (2006), and co-translator (with Walter Brogan) of Martin Heidegger, Artistotle’s Metaphysics, Theta 1–3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force (1995).