Christa Davis Acampora is associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is coeditor, with Ralph R. Acampora, of A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal (2004) and author of numerous articles on Nietzsche.
Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the editor of A Companion to Nietzsche (2006) and coeditor, with Duncan Large, of The Nietzsche Reader (2006).
Babette E. Babich is professor of philosophy at Fordham University in New York City and adjunct research professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. She is author of Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music, and Eros in Hö/derlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger (2006) and Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life (1994; Italian 1996). A three-time Fulbright Scholar and Nietzsche-Fellow (Weimar: 2004), she is founder and executive editor of New Nietzsche Studies and has edited several book collections including Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory (2004), Hernaeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God (2002), Theories of Knowledge, Critical Theory, and the Sciences (1999), Nietzsche, Epistemology, and the Philosophy of Science (1999), and From Phenornenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire (1996).
Eric Blondel is a professor at the University of Paris I (Panthéoii-Sorbonne) where he holds the Chair in Moral Philosophy. Among his numerous writings are works on Nietzsche, Rousseau, love, and film. His Nietzsche: The Body and Culture, to which he refers in the excerpt reprinted in this volume, was published in English translation in 1991.
Daniel W. Conway is professor of philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game (1997) and Nietzsche and the Political (1997), and the editor of the four-volume Nietzsche: Critical Assessments (1998).
Ken Gemes is senior lecturer in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published many papers on the philosophy of science, as well as on Nietzsche.
Jürgen Habermas is a permanent visiting professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. He is emeritus from the universities of Heidelberg anmd Frankfurt, and he served as the director of the prestigious Max Planck Institute in Starnberg, Germany. He is the author of more than fifteen books, including Knowledge and Human Interests (1986), The Legitimation Crisis (1973), The Theory of Contmzcnicative Action (1981), The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985), Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1992), and The Divided West (2006).
Salim Kemal taught philosophy and held research positions at numerous institutions, including Dundee, Princeton, The Pennsylvania State University, and Cambridge. Among his many articles and books are Kant and Fine Art (1986) and The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna (1991). He was cofounder, with Ivan Gaskell, of the book series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts.
Paul S. Loeb is professor of philosophy at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of numerous articles on Nietzsche and is currently completing a book on Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Mark Migotti is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary. He works and publishes on Nietzsche’s ethics, Peirce’s theories of truth and science, and the interplay between epistemic and ethical evaluation.
Wolfgang Müller-Lauter was coeditor of the de Gruyter critical edition of Nietzsche’s complete works and professor emeritus in the Department of Protestant Theology of the Humboldt University in Berlin. His numerous essays and books have had tremendous influence on Nietzsche studies. His Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of His Philosophy, a chapter of which is reprinted here, appeared in English translation in 1999.
Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, professor of philosophy, and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. His Nietzsche. Life as Literature (1985) has been translated into nine languages. He has also authored The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (1998) and Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (1998).
David Owen is professor of social and political theory, and deputy director of the Centre for Philosophy and Value, at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics, and Modernity (1995) as well as coeditor of Foucault contra Habermas (1999) and two forthcoming volumes: Recognition and Power and Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. He is currently completing a book titled Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality.
Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Nietzsche, moraliste français: La conception nietzschéenne d’une psychologie philosophique (2006).
Aaron Ridley teaches philosophy at University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He teaches courses on aesthetics, Nietzsche, logic, and problems of value, and conducts research in the area of philosophy of music. His books include Nietzsche’s Conscience: Six Character Studies from the “Genealogy” (1998) and The Philosophy of Music: Theme and Variations (2004).
Alan D. Schrift is the F. Wendell Miller professor of philosophy and director of the Center for the Humanities at Grinnell College, has published extensively on Nietzsche and French philosophy. His most recent books include Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers (2006), Modernity and the Problem of Evil (2005) and Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics (2000). He is currently overseeing an eight-volume history of Continental philosophy.
Gary Shapiro is the author of Nietzschean Narratives (1989), Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women (1991), Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel (1995), and Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying (2003). He is currently working on questions of geophilosophy.
Tracy B. Strong is UCSD Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author or editor of many articles and several books including Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration (third edition, 2000), and Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of the Ordinary (second edition, 2001). He has also served as the editor of Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy.
Christine Swanton is a professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her book Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View was published in 2005. Her most recent article on Nietzsche, “Can Nietzsche be both an Existentialist and a Virtue Ethicisr,” is to appear in Values and Virtues.
Yirmiyahu Yovel holds distinguished chair positions in philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the New School University in New York. He has written extensively on Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche, including Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews (1998), which includes extended development of the text excerpted in this volume, and Spinoza and Other Heretics (1989). He is the editor of Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker (1986).