Contributors David Arndt studied literature and philosophy as an undergraduate at Deep Springs College and Yale University, and earned a PhD in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he studied with JeanFrançois Lyotard and Jacques Derrida. Peter Baehr is a research professor in social theory at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Etienne Balibar is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Paris– Nanterre and Anniversary Chair of Contemporary European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and a former director of the university’s Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002–8). Roger Berkowitz is the academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Peter Brown is a PhD student in English language and literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Raymond Geuss is emeritus professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Antonia Grunenberg is director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg. Nacira Guénif-Souilamas is a professor of sociology and anthropology at University Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis. Samantha Hill is the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and visiting assistant professor of political studies at Bard College, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York City. She is the author of two forthcoming books: Hannah Arendt, a biography, and Hannah Arendt’s Poems. Martin E. Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 14 books, including The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–50.
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