Roberto Alejandro is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His areas of research are Greek philosophy and tragedy, and contemporary discussions of democracy and justice. He is the author of Hermeneutics, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere (SUNY Press, 1993) and The Limits of Rawlsian Justice (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). His most recent book is entitled Nietzsche and the Drama of Historiobiography (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011).
Babette E. Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City. Her most recent book is The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology (2013). She is also author of La fin de la pensée? Philosophie analytique contre philosophie continentale (2012); Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie (2010); “Eines Gottes Glück, voller Macht und Liebe” (2009); Words in Blood, Like Flowers (2007); Nietzsche e la Scienza (1996); and Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science (1994). She has edited or coedited eight book collections, including The Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology (2014), and is Executive Editor of New Nietzsche Studies, the journal of the Nietzsche Society.
Jussi Backman is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the author of Complicated Presence: Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of Being (SUNY Press, 2015), as well as numerous articles on ancient philosophy, Heidegger, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and recent French philosophy. He has also authored a book in Finnish on Heidegger and Aristotle (2005) and translated Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics into Finnish (2010).
Andrew Bowie is Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche (Manchester University Press, 1990); Schelling and Modern European Philosophy (Routledge, 1993); ed. and trans. F. W. J. von Schelling, On the History of Modern Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1994); From Romanticism to Critical Theory. The Philosophy of German Literary Theory (Routledge, 1997); ed. Manfred Frank, The Subject and the Text (Cambridge University Press, 1997); ed. and trans. F. D. E Schleiermacher, Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Texts (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Introduction to German Philosophy from Kant to Habermas (Polity 2004); Music, Philosophy, and Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2007), German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010); Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language (Aarhus University Press); Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy (Polity Press, 2013), and many articles. He is also a jazz saxophonist.
Eileen Brennan is a Lecturer at Dublin City University, Ireland. She has translated works by Paul Ricoeur, Dominique Janicaud, and Julia Kristeva, among others, and has written on hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethics, and political theory. She is coeditor of the electronic, open access, peer-reviewed academic journal Études Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies.
Rod Coltman is Professor of Philosophy at Collin College, Plano, TX, and is author of The Language of Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Heidegger in Dialogue (SUNY Press, 1998), and translator of several volumes by Hans-Georg Gadamer, including The Beginning of Philosophy (Continuum, 1998) and The Beginning of Knowledge (Continuum, 2001).
Nicholas Davey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dundee. His principal teaching and research interests are in aesthetics and hermeneutics. He has published widely in the field of continental philosophy, aesthetics, and hermeneutic theory. His book, Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer and Philosophical Hermeneutics (2006), is published with the SUNY Press and his book Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer is now published with Edinburgh University Press. He is currently writing a monograph entitled Unsettled Subjects concerning a philosophical defense of the humanities.
Donatella Di Cesare is Professor of Philosophy at the “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Israele. Terra, ritorno, anarchia (Bollati Boringhieri, 2014); Gadamer: A Philosophical Portrait (Indiana University Press, 2013); Utopia of Understanding. Between Babel and Auschwitz (SUNY Press, 2012). She has coedited and written introductions for the Heidegger/Gadamer Briefwechsel (2014) and is on the editorial board of Philosophisches Jahrubuch; Wittgenstein-Studien, and the Heidegger Forum. She is also Vice-President of the Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft.
Robert J. Dostal is the Rufus M. Jones Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer and coeditor of Phenomenology on Kant, German Idealism, Hermeneutics, and Logic. He is the author of numerous articles on hermeneutics and phenomenology, including essays on Kant, Heidegger, and Gadamer.
David Espinet is Assistant Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His publications include Phänomenologie des Hörens. Eine Untersuchung im Ausgang von Martin Heidegger (Tübingen, 2009); “Read thyself! Hobbes, Kant und Husserl über die Grenzen der Selbsterfahrung,” in International Yearbook for Hermeneutics 12 (2013), pp. 126–146; “Hermeneutics,” coauthored with Günter Figal, in The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, ed. Sebastian Luft and Søren Overgaard (London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 496–507), and “‘Êtres de fuite’. Der Ereignischarakter ästhetischer Ideen bei Kant, Merleau-Ponty und Proust”, in Ästhetisches Wissen. Zwischen Sinnlichkeit und Begriff, ed. Christoph Asmuth, Peter Remmers, Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research, Vol. 7 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015).
Paul Fairfield is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Among his recent books is Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted: Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Postmodernism (Bloomsbury, 2011).
István M. Fehér is Professor of Philosophy at ELTE University Budapest and at Andrássy deutschsprachige Universität Budapest. He has published widely on a variety of philosophical themes, but with particular focus on Lukács, Popper, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and German Idealism. Among his publications are books on Sartre and Heidegger, and on Heidegger and Skepticism. He is the author of Schelling—Humboldt: Idealismus und Universität. Mit Ausblicken auf Heidegger und die Hermeneutik (Frankfurt/Main—New York: Peter Lang, 2007), and editor of Wege und Irrwege des neueren Umganges mit Heideggers Werk (1991); Kunst, Hermeneutik, Philosophie. Das Denken Hans-Georg Gadamers im Zusammenhang des 20. Jahrhunderts (2003); and Philosophie und Gestalt der europäischen Universität (2008).
Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy (chair) at the University of Freiburg. He has held many appointments as Visiting Professor, among others at the Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya (Japan), as the Cardinal Mercier Chair at the Catholic University of Leuven, and as the Gadamer Distinguished Visiting Professor at Boston College. His books and articles have been translated into fifteen different languages and include On a Bowl by Young-Jae Lee (Freiburg, 2014); Martin Heidegger: Phänomenologie der Freiheit, revised edition (Tübingen, 2013); Kunst: Philosophische Abhandlungen (Tübingen, 2012); Erscheinungsdinge: Ästhetik als Phänomenologie (Tübingen, 2010; English translation Aesthetics as Phenomenology, trans. Jerome Veith, Bloomington, IN, 2015); Verstehensfragen: Studien zur phänomenologisch-hermeneutischen Philosophie (Tübingen 2009); Gegenständlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie (Tübingen 2006; in English: Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy, Albany, NY, 2010).
Matthias Flatscher is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. His publications include Logos und Lethe. Zur phänomenologischen Sprachauffassung im Spätwerk von Heidegger und Wittgenstein (Freiburg, 2011); Das Fremde im Selbst—das Andere im Selben. Transformationen der Phänomenologie (Würzburg, 2010; coedited with S. Loidolt); “Das Problem des Nicht-Verstehens. Zum Verhältnis von Verstehen und Welt bei Wittgenstein und Husserl,” in Greif, Hajo and Weiß, Martin G. (eds.), Ethics—Society—Politics (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 131–164; “Different Ways to Europe: Habermas and Derrida,” in Ojakangas, Mika, Prozorov, Sergei, and Lindberg, Susanna (eds.): Europe Beyond Universalism and Particularism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2014).
Theodore George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. His research interests are in continental European philosophy since Kant, with emphases in hermeneutical philosophy, classical German philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of art. He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel's Phenomenology (SUNY Press, 2006), and a number of articles and book chapters. His translation work includes Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2010). His research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission, the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is the author of Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and a number of articles on post-Kantian philosophy and aesthetics.
Jean Grondin is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of influential books in the fields of hermeneutics and metaphysics which have been translated in many languages. He was a pupil, friend, and close collaborator of Hans-Georg Gadamer. His books include Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics, Yale University Press, 1994; Sources of Hermeneutics, SUNY Press, 1995; Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography, Yale University Press, 2003; Introduction to Metaphysics, Columbia University Press, 2012; Paul Ricoeur, PUF, 2013; Du sens des choses. L'idée de la métaphysique, PUF, 2013.
Charles Guignon is the author of Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge and On Being Authentic, as well as coauthor of Re-envisioning Psychology. He has edited or coedited a number of volumes, including Existentialism: Basic Writings, Richard Rorty, The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, and two short volumes of Dostoevsky's writings. After teaching at Berkeley, Princeton, The University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Vermont, he is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of South Florida. In the spring of 2015, he will be Cowling Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton College.
Sara Heinämaa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and director of the research community Subjectivity, Historicity, Communality (SHC) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Heinämaa is well known for her work on embodiment, the mind–body union, intersubjectivity, generativity and sexual difference. She has published widely in phenomenology, existentialism, philosophy of mind, history of philosophy, and feminist philosophy.
Niall Keane is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He has published widely in the areas of phenomenology and hermeneutics and is currently working on the emergence and transformation of the self in Heidegger's philosophy. In addition to his publications on Heidegger, Husserl, Gadamer, Michel Henry, and in the field of ancient philosophy, he is Treasurer of the Irish Phenomenological Circle, executive committee member of the British Society for Phenomenology, and cofounder and coordinator of the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies.
Bruce Krajewski is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is editor of Gadamer's Repercussions (University of California Press, 2004), and is currently producing scholarship on the works of Hans Blumenberg, and on the Heideggerian forces percolating in the film The Tree of Life.
Cristina Lafont is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (MIT Press, 1999), Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Global Governance and Human Rights (Spinoza Lecture Series, van Gorcum, 2012), and coeditor of the Habermas Handbuch (Metzler Verlag, 2012). Some of her recent articles on hermeneutic philosophy include “Transcendental vs. Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Being and Time” in The Transcendental Turn, ed. S. Gardner (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); “Meaning and Interpretation. Can Brandomian Scorekeepers be Gadamerian Hermeneuts?,” in Philosophy Compass, 2 (2007), pp. 1–13.
Chris Lawn is Lecturer in Philosophy at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Gadamer: Towards a Post-analytic Philosophy of Language (Continuum, 2004) and Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2006). His current research is on hermeneutics and the historiography of philosophy.
Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2015), as well as Dilthey, Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton University Press, 1993) and Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: The Hermeneutical Import of the “Critique of Judgment” (University of Chicago Press, 1990). He is also coeditor of five volumes of Dilthey's Selected Works; The Ethics of History; Neo-Kantianism in Contemporary Philosophy; and Recent Contributions to Dilthey's Philosophy of the Human Sciences. He was Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy from 1983 to 1998 and was awarded fellowships by the NEH, DAAD, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Thyssen Stiftung, Volkswagen Stiftung, and the Heilbrun Fund. He works on aesthetics, German philosophy from Baumgarten and Kant onward, and the philosophy of history and hermeneutics.
John Panteleimon Manoussakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, and an Honorary Fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy of the Australian Catholic University. His publications focus on the philosophy of religion, phenomenology (in particular post-subjective anthropology in Heidegger and Marion), Plato and the Neo-Platonic tradition, and Patristics (Dionysius and Maximus). He is the author of two books and editor of five volumes, and he has published over thirty articles in English, Greek, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
Francis J. Mootz III is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in Sacramento, California, USA. A leading theorist of the relationship of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics to jurisprudence and legal philosophy, Mootz is the author of Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric (2010) and Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory (2006); editor of On Philosophy in American Law (2009) and Gadamer and Law (2007); coeditor of Gadamer and Ricoeur: Critical Horizons for Contemporary Hermeneutics (2011) and Nietzsche and Law (2008); and author of a number of articles.
Thomas J. Nenon is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis. He served as Editor in the Husserl Archives and as Instructor at the University of Freiburg before coming to the University of Memphis. His teaching and research interests include Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German Idealism, and hermeneutics. He has published numerous articles in those areas as well as the book Objektivität und endliche Erkenntnis (Freiburg: Alber, 1986) and was coeditor (with Hans Rainer Sepp) of volumes XXV and XXVII of the Husserliana. He has served as Review Editor for Husserl Studies, member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), and President of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP). His current research interests center around Husserl's theory of personhood and Kant's and Hegel's practical philosophy.
Tony O' Connor taught philosophy for many years at University College Cork, Ireland. He has published scholarly papers on aesthetics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the historical and cultural character of reason.
Felix Ó Murchadha is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the author of A Phenomenology of Christian Life: Glory and Night (Indiana University Press, 2013), The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger (Bloomsbury, 2013) and has published numerous articles on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Gadamer, Levinas, and in the philosophy of religion.
Robert Piercey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Campion College, University of Regina, Canada. He is the author of The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically (2009), The Crisis in Continental Philosophy: History, Truth and the Hegelian Legacy (2009), and numerous articles on recent European philosophy, metaphilosophy, and the philosophy of history.
David M. Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He was the founder and editor of the journal Cultural Hermeneutics (1973–77) and is the editor of Philosophy and Social Criticism (1978–present). Among his published works are Mythic-Symbolic Language and Philosophical Anthropology: A Constructive Interpretation of the Thought of Paul Ricoeur and Reading Habermas. He is the author of numerous articles on topics ranging from hermeneutics to political theory.
James Risser is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. His published works include Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (1997), and The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics (2012). He is the editor of Heidegger Toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s (1999), coeditor of American Continental Philosophy (2000), and associate editor of the journal Research in Phenomenology.
Brian Rogers completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in 2013. He specializes in phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics, taking special interest in how these approaches bear on questions in the philosophy of religion. Brian has published articles on topics in the phenomenology of religion, and has a forthcoming book chapter on Heidegger's aesthetics. He is currently a Philosophy Instructor at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario.
Inga Römer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal in Germany. Her research interests lie in the field of phenomenology and hermeneutics, as well as in Kant and contemporary Kantianism. She is the author of Das Zeitdenken bei Husserl, Heidegger und Ricœur (Dordrecht 2010) and is editor of Subjektivität und Intersubjektivität in der Phänomenologie (Würzburg 2011) and Investigating Subjectivity: Classical and New Perspectives (Leiden, Boston 2012; with Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Karel Novotny, and László Tengelyi), Person: Anthropologische, phänomenologische und analytische Perspektiven (Münster 2013; with Matthias Wunsch), and Affektivität und Ethik bei Kant und in der Phänomenologie (Berlin, Boston 2014).
Hans Ruin is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, and has published widely on phenomenology and hermeneutics. He is the author of Enigmatic Origins: Tracing the Theme of Historicity Through Heidegger's Works (1994). His most recent book in Swedish is entitled Frihet, ändlighet, historicitet. Essäer om Heideggers filosofi. He is coeditor of Nietzsche's collected works in Swedish and is a member of the editorial board of Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik and Nietzsche Studien. He is also President of The Nordic Society for Phenomenology and Director of the research project “Time, Memory, and Representation.”
John Russon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of three original works in the tradition of continental philosophy: Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life (SUNY Press, 2003), Bearing Witness to Epiphany: Persons, Things, and the Nature of Erotic Life (SUNY Press, 2009), and Sites of Exposure: A Philosophical Essay on Art, Politics, and the Nature of Experience (Indiana University Press, forthcoming). He has also written three books on Hegel: The Self and Its Body in Hegel's Phenomenology (University of Toronto Press, 1997), Reading Hegel's Phenomenology (Indiana University Press, 2009), and Infinite Phenomenology: The Lessons of Hegel's Science of Experience (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming).
John Sallis is currently Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and a regular Visiting Professor at the University of Freiburg. He is the author of more than twenty books, including, most recently, Light Traces (2014), Logic of Imagination (2012), Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art (2008), and The Verge of Philosophy (2008). His writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Dennis J. Schmidt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Idiome der Wahrheit (Klostermann Verlag, 2014); Between Word and Image (Indiana University Press, 2012); Lyrical and Ethical Subjects (SUNY Press, 2005); On Germans and Other Greeks (Indiana University Press, 2001); and The Ubiquity of the Finite (MIT Press, 1988). He has translated Heidegger's Being and Time (2010) and Bloch's Natural Law and Human Dignity (1987). He has coedited and written introductions for Heidegger/Gadamer Briefwechsel (2014); Difficulties of Ethical Life (2008); and Hermeneutische Wege (2000). The SUNY Press “Series in Continental Philosophy” that he edits now has 138 volumes that include translated volumes by (among others) Heidegger, Schelling, Fichte, Hölderlin, Gadamer, Lyotard, Derrida, Nancy, and Lacoue-Labarthe, as well as original works in English.
Lawrence K. Schmidt is the Harold and Lucy Cabe Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. He is the author of The Epistemology of Hans-Georg Gadamer: An Analysis of the Legitimation of Vorurteile (1985) and Understanding Hermeneutics (2006). He has edited The Specter of Relativism: Truth, Dialogue, and Phronesis in Philosophical Hermeneutics (1995) and Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics (2000).
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer is Associate Professor at Aarhus University. He is the author of Bewahrung der Geschichte. Die hermeneutische Philosophie Benjamins (2nd ed. 2002), as well as articles on phenomenology, hermeneutics, and philosophical anthropology, especially Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and Gadamer.
Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies and, by courtesy, of Philosophy at Stanford University, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His most recent book is entitled Making Sense of Heidegger: A Paradigm Shift (2014). His other books include Martin Heidegger, Logic: The Question of Truth (trans., 2007); Becoming Heidegger (2007); Edmund Husserl: Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Encounter with Heidegger (1997); Karl Rahner: The Philosophical Foundations (1987); The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity (1986); and Heidegger, the Man and the Thinker (1981).
Karl Simms is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. His books include Paul Ricoeur (Routledge, 2003), Ricoeur and Lacan (Continuum, 2007), and Hans-Georg Gadamer (Routledge, 2014).
Morten Sørensen Thaning is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Department for Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School. His main areas of research are Ancient Philosophy (Plato), Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (Heidegger and Gadamer) and Philosophy of the social (Foucault). His publications include Foucault. Ein Studienhandbuch (with Sverre Raffnsøe and Marius Gudmand-Høyer), Fink Verlag, pp. 1–398, 2011; “Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato's Lysis,” in The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle, ed. J. L. Fink, Cambridge University Press, pp. 115–137, 2012; and “Freiheit und Verantwortung bei Heidegger und Gadamer,” in D. Angelo, S. Gourdain, T. Keiling, and N. Mirković, Frei sein, frei handeln: Freiheit zwischen theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie, Verlag Karl Alber, pp. 29–57, 2013.
Margherita Tonon received her PhD in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2012. She is the author of “For the Sake of the Possible”: Negative Dialectics in Kierkegaard and Adorno (Brill, forthcoming), is coeditor (with Alison Assiter) of Kierkegaard and the Political (2012), and has written numerous articles on German Idealism and Critical Theory, with particular reference to Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Adorno. She currently lives and lectures in Limerick, Ireland.
Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, Milwaukee. In addition to sixty articles and book chapters, he has authored, translated, or edited fourteen books, among them Être et Discours: La question du langage dans l'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927–1938) (Académie Royale de Belgique, 1994), The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), and Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning (Routledge, 2012). He is a permanent invited professor at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago, Chile) and codirector of the book series Issues in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (Bloomsbury).
David Vessey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University. He has been a visiting scholar in the philosophy departments at the University of Minnesota, The University of Chicago, The University of Notre Dame, and The University of Oregon. He has published over twenty articles on hermeneutics and focuses on the intersection between philosophical hermeneutics and other twentieth-century philosophical traditions, and on the history of hermeneutics.
Jens Zimmermann is Canada Research Chair for Interpretation, Religion and Culture in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has published widely on philosophical and theological hermeneutics, literary theory, and intellectual history. His most recent works are Humanism and Religion: A Call for the Renewal of Western Culture (2012) and the forthcoming volume Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction, both with Oxford University Press.