Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher,Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII:Vincennes—Saint-Denis. After co-authoring Reading Capital (1965) with the structuralist Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and others,and after witnessing the 1968 political uprisings his work turned against Althusserian Marxism,he later came to develop an original body of work focused on aesthetics.
Manuel DeLanda is a Mexican-American writer,artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design,where he teaches courses on the philosophy of urban history and the dynamics of cities as historical actors with an emphasis on the importance of self-organization and material culture in the understanding of a city. DeLanda also teaches architectural theory as an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at the Pratt Institute and serves as the Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1979) and a PhD in media and communication from the European Graduate School (2010).
Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics. As such,his thought is within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists,Martin Heidegger,Hans-Georg Gadamer,and Gabriel Marcel. In 2000,he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for having "revolutionized the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology,expanding the study of textual interpretation to include the broad yet concrete domains of mythology,biblical exegesis,psychoanalysis,theory of metaphor,and narrative theory."
Werner Hamacher was a German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction. Hamacher studied philosophy,comparative literature and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin and the École Normale Supérieure (Paris),where he met and came to know Jacques Derrida. From 1998 to 2013 he was a Professor in the University of Frankfurt's Institute for General and Comparative Literature,and since 2003 he was on the faculty of the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee,Switzerland.
Jeremy Waldron is a New Zealand professor of law and philosophy. He holds a University Professorship at the New York University School of Law,is affiliated with the New York University Department of Philosophy,and was formerly the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College,Oxford University. Waldron also holds an adjunct professorship at Victoria University of Wellington. Waldron is regarded as one of the world's leading legal and political philosophers.
Geoffrey Bennington is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University in Georgia,United States,and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee,Switzerland,as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy in Paris. He is a literary critic and philosopher,best known as an expert on deconstruction and the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard. Bennington has translated many of Derrida's works into English.
William Sweet is a Canadian philosopher,and a past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association and of the Canadian Theological Society.
Joseph Sweetman Ames was a physicist,professor at Johns Hopkins University,provost of the university from 1926 to 1929,and university president from 1929 to 1935. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its longtime chairman (1919–1939). NASA Ames Research Center is named after him. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911. He was the 1935 recipient of the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution.
Michael Joseph Shapiro is an American educator,theorist,and writer. He is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His work is often described as "postdisciplinary," drawing from such diverse fields as political philosophy,critical theory,cultural studies,film theory,international relations theory,literary theory,African American studies,comparative politics,geography,sociology,urban planning,economics,psychoanalysis,crime fiction,genre studies,new musicology,aesthetics and indigenous politics.
Limited Inc is a 1988 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida,containing two essays and an interview.
Alenka Zupančič is a Slovenian philosopher whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and continental philosophy. She is a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher who along with Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek have in large measure been responsible for the popularity in North America of a politically infused Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Gregory Leland Ulmer is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida (Gainesville) and a professor of Electronic Languages and Cybermedia at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee,Switzerland.
Christopher Ingebreth Fynsk is an American philosopher. He is Professor and Dean of the Division of Philosophy,Art,and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee,Switzerland and Professor Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen. He is well known for his work relating the political and literary aspects of continental philosophy. Fynsk's work is closely involved with that of Martin Heidegger,Maurice Blanchot,Emmanuel Levinas,Walter Benjamin and several contemporary artists,including Francis Bacon and Salvatore Puglia.
William Klaas Frankena was an American moral philosopher. He was a member of the University of Michigan's department of philosophy for 41 years (1937–1978),and chair of the department for 14 years (1947–1961).
Brian Holmes is a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee,Switzerland,where he teaches an intensive summer seminar. He has worked with the French graphics collective Ne Pas Plier from 1999 to 2001 and the French cartography collective Bureau d'Études.
Hugh J. Silverman was an American philosopher and cultural theorist whose writing,lecturing,teaching,editing,and international conferencing participated in the development of a postmodern network. He was executive director of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature and professor of philosophy and comparative literary and cultural studies at Stony Brook University,where he was also affiliated with the Department of Art and the Department of European Languages,Literatures,and Cultures. He was program director for the Stony Brook Advanced Graduate Certificate in Art and Philosophy. He was also co-founder and co-director of the annual International Philosophical Seminar since 1991 in South Tyrol,Italy. From 1980 to 1986,he served as executive co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. His work draws upon deconstruction,hermeneutics,semiotics,phenomenology,aesthetics,art theory,film theory,and the archeology of knowledge.
Ethan Kleinberg works on the acrobatics of modern thought. He is Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University,Editor-in-Chief of History and Theory and was Director of Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities. Kleinberg's research interests include European intellectual history with special interest in France and Germany,critical theory,educational structures,and the philosophy of history. Kleinberg's wide-ranging scholarly work spans across the fields of history,philosophy,comparative literature and religion. Together with Joan Wallach Scott and Gary Wilder he is a member of the Wild On Collective who co-authored the "Theses on Theory and History" and started the #TheoryRevolt movement. He is the author of Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn:Philosophy and Jewish Thought (SUP);Haunting History:for a deconstructive approach to the past (SUP);Generation Existential:Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy in France,1927-61 (CUP) which was awarded the 2006 Morris D. Forkosch prize for the best book in intellectual history by the Journal of the History of Ideas and co-editor of the volume Presence:Philosophy,History,and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century (CUP). He is completing a book length project titled The Surge:a new compass of history for the end-time of truth.
Charles De Koninck was a Belgian-Canadian Thomist philosopher and theologian. As director of the Department of Philosophy at the UniversitéLaval in Quebec,he influenced Catholic philosophy in French Canada and also influenced Catholic philosophers in English Canada and the United States. The author of many books and articles in French and English,he contributed to a variety of philosophical fields including natural philosophy,philosophy of science,philosophy of mathematics,and political philosophy,but he also wrote on theology,especially Mariology.
Lorenzo Chiesa is a philosopher,critical theorist,translator,and professor whose academic research and works focus on the intersection between ontology,psychoanalysis,and political theory.
