Deborah Cook is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Canada. Her books include The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture (1996) and Adorno, Habermas, and the Search for a Rational Society (2004).
Ståle Finke is Professor of Philosophy at NTNY, the University of Trondheim, Norway. His recent publications include Approaches to Painting (co-authored with art historian Holger Koefoed) on the Norwegian painter Håvard Vikhagen. His current research deals with Gadamer’s hermeneutics, language and mimesis.
Fabian Freyenhagen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, having previously worked at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge. His research interests are in moral and political philosophy as well as in modern European philosophy (especially Kant and Adorno). He is currently writing a book-length defence of Adorno's ethics.
Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. Recently a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research, he is currently teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary (2002), Adorno and the Political (2006) and, as editor, German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (2007).
Pauline Johnson is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her recent publications include Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere (2006). Her current research seeks to renegotiate the terms in which a contemporary sociology of intimacy conceives the intersections between the private and the public spheres.
Brian O'Connor is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Dublin. He is the author of Adorno’s Negative Dialectic: Philosophy and the Possibility of a Critical Rationality (2004) and editor of The Adorno Reader (2000). Among his contributions to other aspects of German philosophy is German Idealism: An Anthology and Guide (2006), which he edited with Georg Mohr.
Alison Stone is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University. She works in post-Kantian European philosophy, feminist philosophy and political philosophy. Her books include Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy (2004), Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (2006) and An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (2007).
Marianne Tettlebaum is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Hendrix College, USA. She is currently at work on a book-length study entitled Adorno’s Lightheartedness — ‘Mozart’s Sadness’, which examines the role of the concepts of lightheartedness and childhood in Adorno's analysis of the German philosophical tradition.
Ross Wilson is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the author of Subjective Universality in Kant’s Aesthetics (2007) and of Theodor Adorno (2008).
Robert W. Witkin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter, and a Fellow of the Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. He is the author of Adorno on Music (1998) and Adorno on Popular Culture (2002).