Peg Birmingham
is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (Indian up, 2006), co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (Koros, 1996), and co-editor (with Anna Yeatman) of Aporia of Rights: Citizenship in an Era of Human Rights (Bloomsbury, 2014). She has recently completed a monograph, “Hannah Arendt and Glory: Political Immortality in an Age of the Superfluous.” She is the editor of Philosophy Today.
Claudia Baracchi
is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. Among her publications are Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy (2008), Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle (editor, 2014), L’architettura dell’umano (2014), Il cosmo della Bildung (with R. Rizzi, 2016), and Filosofia antica e vita effimera: Migrazioni, trasmigrazioni e laboratori della psiche (2020). Her research focuses on ancient philosophy (in relation to Eastern traditions and archaic thinking), psychoanalysis, philosophy of art, philosophy, and theater. She is a practicing analyst with a philosophical orientation in Milano.
Sara Brill
is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University. She works on the psychology, politics, and ethics of Plato and Aristotle, as well as on broader questions about embodiment, life, and power as points of intersection between ancient Greek philosophy, literature, and contemporary critical theory. She is the author of Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life (2020) and Plato on the Limits of Human Life (2013), and the co-editor (with Emanuela Bianchi and Brooke Holmes) of Antiquities Beyond Humanism (2019) and (with Catherine McKeen) of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy.
Walter Brogan
is a member of the Philosophy Department at Villanova University. He is on the board of directors of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Italy, and is a past member of the executive committee of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern) and the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. He is the co-founder of the Ancient Philosophy Society and a past editor of Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. His publications
S. Montgomery Ewegen
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is author of The Way of the Platonic Socrates (2020) and Plato’s Cratylus: The Comedy of Language (2013), as well as multiple articles on Plato. He is also co-translator, along with Julia Goesser-Assaiante, of Martin Heidegger’s Heraclitus (2018) and Martin Heidegger / Karl Löwith: Correspondence (1919–1973) (2021). He currently lives in Middletown, CT.
Bernard Freydberg
is the author of The Thought of John Sallis: Phenomenology Plato, Imagination (Northwestern, 2012) and 9 other books. His most recent book is titled Toward a New Foundationalism: From Carnap to Kripke, and from Husserl to Sallis (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021). He has published over 50 papers on various subjects in Continental Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, and Kant and German Idealism. After 30 years teaching at Slippery Rock University, PA, he taught at Koç University, Istanbul and became Scholar in Residence at Duquesne University.
Drew A. Hyland
is Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. He has also taught at the University of Toronto, The New School for Social Research, Boston University, and Suffolk University. He is the author of books and articles on Ancient Greek Philosophy, 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, and Philosophy of Sport. His recent publications include Plato and the Question of Beauty, Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato, and Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues.
Michael Naas
is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He works in the areas of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Contemporary French Philosophy. His most recent books include Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage (Fordham University Press, 2021), Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband (Bloomsbury, 2020), and Plato and the Invention of Life (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is co-translator of several works by Jacques Derrida, including Life Death, Seminar of 1975–1976 (University of
Jeffrey Powell
is Professor of Philosophy at Marshall University. He is the editor of Heidegger and Language and co-translator (with Will McNeill) of Martin Heidegger’s The History of Beyng, both with Indiana University Press. He is also co-editor (with Maria Acosta) of Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom: Friedrich Schiller and Philosophy with suny Press. He has published essays in various areas of 20th century Continental Philosophy and German Idealism. His current research focuses on the notion of power and its relation to contemporary political philosophy.
James Risser
is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University and is a Senior Research Fellow at Western Sydney 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) and coeditor (with Walter Brogan) of American Continental Philosophy (2002). His research is in the area of aesthetics and contemporary Continental Philosophy. He has recently completed a new study in hermeneutics.
John Sallis
is Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of more than twenty-five books. He is the recipient of numerous awards. including the Humboldt Research Prize and an honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg. He has previously held endowed Chairs at Loyola University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, and Pennsylvania State University, as well as Visiting Professorships at Wuhan University (China), University of Bergen (Norway), Staffordshire University (UK), University of Freiburg (Germany), University of Tübingen (Germany), and Warwick University (UK). He has lectured throughout Europe, Asia, and South and North America. His writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Dennis J. Schmidt
is Research Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at Western Sydney University. He is the author of Idiome der Wahrheit (Klostermann
Alejandro A. Vallega
is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. Among his book publications are Heidegger and the Issue of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds; Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Art, Language, and the Political and, Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority. He has published extensively on aesthetics, hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, and Latin American thought. He is also a practicing painter and together with John Sallis co-author of Light Traces.
Daniela Vallega-Neu
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. Among her books are Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction (Indiana University Press, 2003), The Bodily Dimension in Thinking (suny Press, 2005), and Heidegger’s Poietic Writings (Indiana University Press, 2018). She also is co-editor of Research in Phenomenology.
Jason M. Wirth
is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University, and works in the areas of Continental Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy. His recent books include Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy (2019), Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (2017), a monograph on Milan Kundera Commiserating with Devastated Things (2016), Schelling’s Practice of the Wild (2015), and the co-edited volume (with Bret Davis and Brian Schroeder) Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (2011). He is the associate editor of the journal, Comparative and Continental Philosophy. He is currently completing a manuscript on the cinema of Terrence Malick as well as a work of ecological philosophy called Turtle Island Anarchy.