Andrew M. Koch is a professor of political philosophy in the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. He received his PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a former Fulbright Scholar and Friedrich Ebert Foundation Fellow. His main area of research is continental epistemology and philosophy. Among his published works are Medieval America; Democracy and Domination; Poststructuralism and the Politics of Method; Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation in the Writings of Max Weber; Knowledge and Social Construction; Poststructuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism; and Cyber Citizen or Cyborg Citizen: The Problem of Political Agency in Virtual Politics.