DOMINIQUE JANICAUD was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, where he began teaching in 1966. He was a former student of the École Normale Supérieure and Agrégé de Philosophie. From 1983 to 1998 he directed the Centre de recherches d’histoire des idées, in Nice. He was a visiting professor at several universities in the United States, including the Pennsylvania State University and Stony Brook University. Professor Janicaud was a critical and inventive reader of Heidegger. His many books include Powers of the Rational (IUP, 1994), Heidegger from Metaphysics to Thought (1995), The Shadow of that Thought (1996), Phenomenology and the Theological Turn (2001), and Phenomenology Wide Open (2010). His book Heidegger en France, the crowning achievement of his philosophical work, was published by Éditions Albin Michel in 2001. Born November 14, 1937, in Paris, Professor Janicaud passed away August 18, 2002.

DAVID PETTIGREW is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, where he has taught since 1987. He has co-edited a number of volumes, including French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception (2008) and Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (2002). He is also the co-translator of Françoise Dastur’s Heidegger and the Question of Time (1998), among other works. Pettigrew has authored essays on the ethical implications of Heidegger’s thought that have appeared in French and Arabic. In addition, he has authored a number of essays on the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, and J-D. Nasio. He is co-editor (with François Raffoul) of a book series at SUNY Press devoted to Contemporary French Thought.

FRANÇOIS RAFFOUL is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Heidegger and the Subject (1999), A Chaque fois Mien (Paris, 2004), and The Origins of Responsibility (IUP, 2010). He is completing a new manuscript entitled Thinking the Event. He is the co-editor of a number of volumes, including Disseminating Lacan (1996), Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (2002), Rethinking Facticity (2008), French Interpretations of Heidegger (2008), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (2013). He has co-translated several French philosophers, including Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. He is the editor (with David Pettigrew) of a book series at SUNY Press, Contemporary French Thought.