Suzi Adams is senior lecturer in sociology at Flinders University (Australia), a permanent external fellow at the Central European Institute of Philosophy at Charles University (Czech Republic), and a coordinator editor for the Social Imaginaries journal and book series. Her research focuses on a hermeneutic of modernity, social creativity, sociopolitical change, and social imaginaries. She has written extensively on Castoriadis’s thought, and is the author of Castoriadis’s Ontology: Being and Creation (2011). Recent publications include ‘The Significance of the Ancient Greek Polis for Patočka and Castoriadis: Philosophy, Politics, History’, in Tava, F., and Meacham, D. (Eds), Thinking After Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics (2016); ‘On Ricoeur’s Shift from a Hermeneutics of Culture to a Cultural Hermeneutics’, Études Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies (2015); and ‘Interpreting the World as a Shared Horizon: The Intercultural Element’, in Xie, Ming (Ed.), Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics (2014).
Jean-Luc Amalric is Agrégé and doctor of philosophy from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the research center Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Sciences humaines et Sociales (CRISES) of the University Montpellier 3. Together with Professor Eileen Brennan, he is the general editor of Etudes Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies (ERRS ). A member of the Scientific Board of Councillors of the Fonds Ricoeur, he is currently editing and translating, in collaboration with Professor George Taylor, the Lectures on Imagination (a course taught by Paul Ricoeur at the University of Chicago in 1975). He is also the author of Ricoeur, Derrida. L’enjeu de la métaphore (2006) and Paul Ricoeur, l’imagination vive: Une genèse de la philosophie ricoeurienne de l’imagination (2013).
Johann P. Arnason is emeritus professor of sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and professor at the Faculty of Human Studies, Charles University, Prague. His research interests focus on historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative analysis of civilisations. Recent publications include Nordic Paths to Modernity (co-edited with Björn Wittrock, 2014) and Religion and Politics: European and Global Perspectives (co-edited with Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, 2014).
François Dosse is an historian and epistemologist, who specializes in the history of thought. He is the founder of the journal Espace Temps. He has written intellectual biographies of Paul Ricoeur, Cornelius Castoriadis, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Pierre Nora, and others.
Johann Michel is a university professor at the University of Poitiers and is affiliated with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Institut Marcel Mauss) [EHESS (IMM)] in Paris. He is a member of the scientific council of the Fonds Ricoeur and is a co-founder of the international journal Ricoeur Studies. He is also a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has published widely on Ricoeur. His most recent book was translated into English as Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists: Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis (2014) and Quand le social vient au sens (2015).
George H. Taylor is a professor of law in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh. He specialises in legal hermeneutics and hermeneutics more generally. He studied as a graduate student under Paul Ricoeur, and he is the editor of Ricoeur’s Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986) and co-editor of Ricoeur’s Lectures on Imagination (forthcoming). He has written on Ricoeur extensively. He was the founding President of the Society for Ricoeur Studies and a co-founder of the online, bilingual journal Études Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies.