Stoler, Ann Laura
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, Founding Director of its Institute for Critical Social Inquiry since 2014, and one of the founding editors of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002), Along the Archival Grain (2009), and Duress (2016).
Gourgouris, Stathis
Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece; Does Literature Think?: Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era; Lessons in Secular Criticism; and ??de??µ???? ata??e? (Contingent Disorders). His most recent book is The Perils of the One.
Anidjar, Gil
Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is currently completing a manuscript titled Sparta and Gaza: The Tradition of Destruction; sections of it have been published here and there.
Lezra, Jacques
Jacques Lezra is Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are República salvaje (2019), On the Nature of Marx’s Things (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), and Contra todos los fueros de la muerte
(2016).
Stoler, Ann Laura
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, Founding Director of its Institute for Critical Social Inquiry since 2014, and one of the founding editors of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002), Along the Archival Grain (2009), and Duress (2016).
Ophir, Adi M.
Adi M. Ophir is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and visiting professor at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (with Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Oxford, 2018), The One State Condition: Democracy and Occupation in Israel/Palestine (with Ariella Azoulay, Stanford, 2012) The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (Zone, 2005), Plato’s Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the ‘Republic’ (Routledge, 1991) and coeditor (with J. M. Bernstein and Ann Laura Stoler) of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (Fordham, 2018).
Bernstein, J. M.
J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His writings include The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (1992), Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory (1995), Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2002), and Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (2006). His most recent book is Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury (2015). He is working on a manuscript with the tentative title Human Rights: On the Foundations of Ecological Socialism, from which the essay in this volume is drawn.
Bernstein, J. M.
J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His writings include The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (1992), Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory (1995), Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2002), and Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (2006). His most recent book is Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury (2015). He is working on a manuscript with the tentative title Human Rights: On the Foundations of Ecological Socialism, from which the essay in this volume is drawn.
Balibar, Étienne
Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at the Université de Paris X Nanterre; Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine; and Anniversary Chair in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. His research in the fields of political, moral, and Marxist philosophy focuses on emancipation, citizenship, and on what he terms “equaliberty.” The breadth of his thought can be gauged from his published works, from Reading Capital, released in 1965 and coauthored with his mentor Louis Althusser, to the more recent We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2003), Equaliberty (2014), Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (2015), Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology (2017), and Secularism and Cosmopolitanism (2018).
Ophir, Adi M.
Adi M. Ophir is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and visiting professor at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (with Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Oxford, 2018), The One State Condition: Democracy and Occupation in Israel/Palestine (with Ariella Azoulay, Stanford, 2012) The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (Zone, 2005), Plato’s Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the ‘Republic’ (Routledge, 1991) and coeditor (with J. M. Bernstein and Ann Laura Stoler) of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (Fordham, 2018).
Bernstein J. M.:
J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.Ophir Adi:
Adi Ophir is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and a Visiting Professor at the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Program for Middle East Studies at Brown University.Stoler Ann Laura:
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research where she directs the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. Her most recent book is Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Duke, 2016).Gourgouris Stathis:
Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Perils of the One (Columbia, 2019).Anidjar Gil:
Gil Anidjar is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Religion at Columbia
University. He is the author of: Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (2008); The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (2003); and Our Place in al-Andalus’: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (2002).Stoler Ann Laura:
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research where she directs the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. Her most recent book is Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Duke, 2016).Ophir Adi:
Adi Ophir is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and a Visiting Professor at the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Program for Middle East Studies at Brown University.Balibar Étienne:
Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at Université de Paris X–Nanterre; Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine; and Visiting Professor of French at Columbia University. His many books include Citizen Subject (Fordham, 2016); Equaliberty (Duke, 2014); We, the People of Europe? (Princeton, 2003); The Philosophy of Marx (Verso, new ed. 2017); and two important coauthored books, Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso, 1988) and Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser and others, Verso, new ed. 2016).Bernstein J. M.:
J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.Lezra Jacques:
Jacques Lezra is Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of California—Riverside. His most recent book is On the Nature of Marx’s Things: Translation as Necrophilology (Fordham, 2018).
