Serge Audier is associate professor of philosophy at Université Paris-Sorbonne and the author of numerous books and articles in political philosophy including: Néolibéralisme(s); Penser le “néolibéralisme”: le moment neoliberal; Foucault et la crise du socialism; and Le colloque Walter Lippman: Aux origins du néoliberalisme.
Aner Barzilay is an intellectual historian of modern Europe who recently completed his graduate studies at Yale University’s History Department. In his doctoral dissertation, which he is currently rewriting as a book, he argues for the crucial role of Friedrich Nietzsche as a consistent source philosophical and methodological inspiration on Michel Foucault going back to the early 1950. By elucidating this philosophical debt based on a plethora of documents he recovered from Foucault’s personal archive, he argues for a reappraisal of Foucault’s oeuvre in the context of the modern philosophy of history.
Michael C. Behrent is associate professor of history. He is the co-author, with Daniel Zamora, of Foucault and Neoliberalism (2016). He writes about French political thought. He is currently working on a book on the young Foucault.
Claudia Castiglioni is research fellow at the University of Milan and adjunct professor of Iranian history and politics at the Institute d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). She holds a PhD in history of international relations from the University of Florence (2011). Her publications include “No Longer a Client, Not Yet a Partner: The Us–Iranian Alliance in the Johnson Years,” in Cold War History and Gli Stati Uniti e la modernizzazione italiana (2015). She is currently working on a research project that investigates responses of European intellectuals on the Left to the Iranian Revolution.
Duncan Kelly is Professor of political thought and intellectual history in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Jesus College. His books include The State of the Political (2003) and The Propriety of Liberty (2010), and he is a co-editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History. Duncan’s current research focuses on the intellectual history of the First World War, while his next book, Politics and the Anthropocene, will appear in 2019.
Dotan Leshem is a historian of systems of economic and political thought. Leshem’s articles have appeared in journals on the history of economic thought, history of the humanities, critical studies, political theory, theology, economics and comparative literature. His article “Oikonomia Redefined” was awarded best article of 2014 by the History of Economics Society. Leshem’s book The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault was published 2016.
Luca Paltrinieri received is PhD in philosophy from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and University of Pisa, he is currently assistant professor in Political Philosophy at University of Rennes 1 (France) and program director at Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, where he conducts the research program, “The Political Genealogy of the Firm.” His work concentrates on contemporary continental philosophy and philosophy of economy, with a specific focus on Foucault and French Philosophy in the twentieth century, historical epistemology, neoliberalism, and the transformation of firms and enterprises. He published L’expérience du concept: Michel Foucault entre épistémologie et histoire (2012) and co-edited with C. Laval and F. Taylan, Marx & Foucault: lectures, usages and confrontation (2015).
Judith Revel (1966) is full professor of contemporary philosophy at Paris Nanterre University (research team Sophiapol, EA3932, of which she is co-director) since 2014. She holds memberships at the Centre Michel Foucault, the Scientific Council of the IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine), and the scientific committee of the College International de Philosophie. A specialist in contemporary French and Italian thought, her work focuses in particular on the way in which, after 1945, a certain practice of philosophy attempted, at the intersection of politics, historiography and aesthetics, to problematize its own historical situation and simultaneously the possibility of intervening at the very heart of the present.
In recent years she has directed two collective research projects on the use of archives: “Discipliner l’archive? (within the LabEx “Les passés dans le present,” université Paris Nanterre, 2016–2018), and “Genre et transmission. Pour une nouvelle archéologie du genre” (Université Paris Lumière––Paris Nanterre/ Paris VIII/Archives Nationales, 2016–2019). Her latest book is titled, Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty: Ontologie politique, présentisme et histoire (2015).
Stephen W. Sawyer is professor of history at the American University of Paris. His research focuses on the history of democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published two monographs on this question entitled Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880 (2018) and Adolphe Thiers ou la contingence et le pouvoir (2018). He is associate editor of the Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales and director of publications for The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville. He has translated Foucault’s lectures Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (2014) and co-edited numerous volumes, including two other collections that focus, like this volume, on the legacy of liberalism in French political and social thought in the second half of the twentieth century: In Search of the Liberal Moment: Democracy, Anti-totalitarianism and Intellectual Politics in France since 1950 (2016) and Pierre Rosanvallon’s Political Thought (2018).
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. He is currently writing a book titled, The Neoconservative Moment in France: Raymond Aron and the United States.
Daniel Zamora is a postdoctoral researcher in sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He works on the history of social policy, inequality, and on modern intellectual history. He has published a history of poor relief in Belgium during the twentieth century (De l’Egalité à la Pauvreté, 2017), a small volume on basic income (2017) and coedited with Michael C. Behrent, Foucault and Neoliberalism.