SILVIA BENSO is professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. She is the author of The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics (SUNY, 2000) and is also the coeditor, with Brian Schroeder, of Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion (SUNY, 2007).
BETTINA BERGO is the author of Levinas Between Ethics and Politics (Kluwer, 1999) and coeditor of the collection Levinas’ Contribution to Contemporary Thought (Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 20–21, 1998). She has translated three works of Levinas and is the author of numerous articles on Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, feminism, and psychoanalysis.
DAVID BOOTHROYD teaches in the School of Social Research, Sociology, and Social Policy at the University of Kent, U.K. He is a cofounding editor of Culture Machine (http://culturemachine.net) and the author of Culture on Drugs: Narco-Cultural Studies of High Modernity (Manchester University Press, 2007). He is currently working on a book entitled Ethical Subjects: The Ethical Encounters of Material Life.
JUDITH BUTLER is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book, Giving an Account of Oneself, appeared with Fordham University Press (2005) and considers the partial opacity of the subject and the relation between critique and ethical reflection. She is currently working on essays pertaining to Jewish philosophy, focusing on pre-Zionist criticisms of state violence.
RICHARD A. COHEN is the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His publications include Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas (University of Chicago Press, 1994) and Ethics, Exegesis, and Philosophy: Interpretation After Levinas (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He is the translator of many works by Levinas, including Ethics and Infinity (Duquesne, 1985) and New Talmudic Readings (Duquesne, 1999).
ROSALYN DIPROSE is associate professor of philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her most recent book is Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas (SUNY, 2002). She is currently coediting a collection on Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (with Jack Reynolds for Acumen Press).
JOHN DRABINSKI teaches philosophy in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. In addition to numerous journal articles on Levinas, phenomenology, and political philosophy, he has published Sensibility and Singularity (SUNY, 2001) and is the author of Godard Between Identity and Difference (Continuum, 2007).
CLAIRE ELISE KATZ is an associate professor of philosophy and women’s studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca (Indiana, 2003) and the editor of Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments (Routledge, 2005). She has published in the areas of feminist theory, philosophy of education, phenomenology, Jewish philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
ALPHONSO LINGIS is a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His publications include: Excesses: Eros and Culture (1984), Libido: The French Existential Theories (1985), Phenomenological Explanations (1986), The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (1994), Abuses (1994), Sensation: Intelligibility in Sensibility (1995), The Imperative (1998), Body Modifications: Evolutions and Atavisms in Culture (2005), and The First Person Singular (2006).
JOHN LLEWELYN, formerly reader in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, is visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis and the Arthur J. Schmitt Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. His publications include Margins of Religion: Between Kierkegaard and Derrida (forthcoming, 2009) and Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas (Indiana, 2002).
JEAN-MICHEL LONGNEAUX is professor of ethics and phenomenology in the Law School of the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium. He has published essays on the philosophy of Spinoza, Levinas, Nietzsche, palliative care, and two books: L’expérience du mal (Éditions Namuroises, 2004) and Michel Henry: L’épreuve de la vie (Le Cerf, 2001).
AÏCHA LIVIANA MESSINA is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago. She is the author of several articles and recently published, in dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy, a study of the aesthetic desubjectivation at work in the creation of the literary and artistic double, Poser me va si bien (Éditions P. O. L., 2005).
BRIAN SCHROEDER is professor of philosophy and coordinator of religious studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His publications include Altared Ground: Levinas, History, and Violence (Routledge, 1996); Thinking Through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, ed. with Lissa McCullough (SUNY, 2004); and Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion, ed. and trans. with Silvia Benso (SUNY, 2007).
JILL STAUFFER is assistant professor of philosophy at John Jay College, CUNY. Her publications include contributions to Essays on Levinas and Law: A Mosaic, ed. Desmond Manderson (Palgrave 2008); Critical Beings: Law, Nation, and the Global Subject, ed. Peter Fitzpatrick and Patricia Tuitt (Ashgate 2004); and the Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.