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Notes on Contributors Notes on Contributors Ian Angus received an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo (1973) and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University (1980). He has taught at several universities in Canada and the United States and is currently Professor of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. Recent publications include Emergent Publics: An Essay on Social Movements and Democracy, (Dis)figurations: Discourse/Critique/Ethics, Primal Scenes of Communication: Communication, Consumerism, Social Movements, and the edited volume Anarcho-Modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory. An extended essay entitled “In Praise of Fire: Responsibility, Manifestation, Polemos, Circumspection” was published in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. 4 – 2004, and a collection, co-edited with R. Peters and R. Dart, Athens and Jerusalem: The Philosophy and Theology of George Grant will appear shortly from University of Toronto Press. Martine Béland est doctorante en philosophie à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), où elle prépare une thèse sur la dimension politique de la pensée de Nietzsche. Elle est aussi étudiante au troisième cycle au Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes de l’Université de Montréal. Elle a donné des conférences et publié des articles sur Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, Nietzsche et Sartre, don’t récemment « Heidegger en dialogue : par delà Ernst Jünger, un retour à Nietzsche, » Dialogue (2006), et « Heidegger, le philosophe et la cite, » Horizons philosophiques (2006). Elle est membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Horizons philosophiques dont elle a codirigé un numéro sur Heidegger (2004) et un autre sur l’existentialisme (2006). Florence Caeymaex est chercheuse pour le Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgique), et travaille au sein du Service de philosophie morale et politique de l’Université de Liège (Belgique). Spécialiste de la pensée française du xxe siècle, et plus particulièrement de la phénoménologie, elle a publié un ouvrage intitulé Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bergson. Les phénoménologies existentialistes et leur héritage bergsonien (Olms Verlag, 2005), et de nombreux articles dans des revues et des ouvrages collectifs spécialisés. Elle est secrétaire et animatrice du Groupe belge d’études sartriennes, et member du Comité consultatif de Bioéthique de Belgique depuis 2005. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur la possibilité de renouvellement de la dialectique au service d’un projet critique articulé à une pensée de l’historicité. PhaenEx 1, no.1 (spring/summer 2006): 272-275 - 273 - Notes on Contributors Saulius Geniusas is currently a research fellow at the Husserl Archive at the University of Cologne and doctorate candidate in philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He teaches at Eugene Lang College of The New School in New York City. Recent and Forthcoming Publications: "Is the Self of Social Behaviorism Capable of Auto-Affection? Mead and Marion on the 'I' and the 'Me,'" Transactions of the C. S. Pierce Society (2006); "Intentionality: Consciousness, Language, Culture," Philosophical Apprenticeships (Calgary, forthcoming); "On the Paradox of Perception and the Emergence of the Absolute Consciousness in Husserl's Phenomenology," Phenomenology 2005 (e-text, forthcoming); "Baudrillard's Raw Phenomenology," The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2004); "Death of the Author and the Question of the Legislative Intent," Respectus Philologicus (2003). Jacob Golomb teaches philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and acts as the philosophical editor of the Hebrew University Magnes Press. His books include Nietzsche and Zion (Cornell 2004), In Search of Authenticity from Kierkegaard to Camus (Routledge 1995), Introduction to Philosophies of Existence (1990), and Nietzsche's Enticing Psychology of Power (Iowa State and Jerusalem 1989). Among his many editions are Nietzsche and Jewish Culture (Routledge 1997), and Nietzsche and the Austrian Culture (Wien 2004). He is co-editor of Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? (Princeton 2002), and Nietzsche and Depth Psychology (SUNY 1999). Asher Horowitz is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto. He is the author of Rousseau, Nature and History, and (with G. Horowitz) 'Everywhere They Are in Chains': Political Theory from Rousseau to Marx. He is editor (with T. Maley) of The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment, and (with G. Horowitz) of Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics (2006). His recent articles have discussed Levinas, Habermas, Adorno and Marxism in Philosophy and Social Criticism, Philosophy Today, and Rethinking Marxism. - 274 - PhaenEx Mark Kingwell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. He is the author of nine books of philosophy and cultural theory, most recently Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams (Yale 2006). His articles and reviews have appeared in many journals, including the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Political Theory, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, as well as more than forty mainstream publications. His writing on architecture and design has been featured in the Harvard Design Magazine, Harper's, the New York Times, Azure, Queen's Quarterly, Perspectives, Bite, FORM, Toronto Life, and the National Post. He is the winner of the Spitz Prize for political theory, National Magazine Awards for columns and essays, and in 2000 was awarded an honorary DFA by the Nova Scotia College of Arts & Design for contributions to theory and criticism. Gary Brent Madison is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. He is the author of numerous articles and many books dealing with contemporary Continental philosophy and political and economic theory, including The Phenomenology of Merleau- Ponty, The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity: Figures and Themes, and The Politics of Postmodernity: Essays in Applied Hermeneutics. He is currently working on a book entitled On Suffering. James Mensch is a Professor of Philosophy at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish Nova Scotia. Recently, he has authored Hiddenness and Alterity (Dusquesne 2005), as well as the following book chapters: “Shame and Guilt, The Unspeakableness of Violence” in Phänomenologie und Gewalt (Könighausen & Neuman 2005), “The Ethical Limits to Self- Making” in Between Description and Interpretation, The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology (The Hermeneutic Press 2005), and “What Should We Pray For?” in The Phenomenology of Prayer (Fordham 2005). Chapters in press include: “Aesthetic Education and the Project of Being Human” in Contributions to Phenomenology (Kluwer), and “Sustaining the Other: Tolerance as a Positive Ideal” in Interpretando la experiencia de la tolerancia (Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). Graeme Nicholson is Emeritus Professor at Trinity College, University of Toronto. His research interests centre on ontology and hermeneutics, mainly in Continental authors of the twentieth century, and in the political philosophy of anarchism. He has published a study entitled Plato's Phaedrus: The Philosophy of Love as well as Seeing and Reading. Contemporary Studies in philosophy and the human sciences. He has also edited studies on Gadamer, Heidegger,and Fackenheim. - 275 - Notes on Contributors Dorothea Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy, former Chair, and former Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She has completed three new books: as author of The Universal (In the realm of the Sensible) (Edinburgh and Columbia 2007), as coeditor (with Gail Weiss) of Rereading Merleau-Ponty (Penn State 2006), and as coeditor (with Helen Fielding, Gabrielle Hiltman, and Anne Reichold) of Alterity and Sex/Gender—Phenomenological Reflections in Ethics (Palgrave 2007). She has also authored Gilles Deleuze and The Ruin of Representation (University of California 1999), edited Resistance, Flight, Creation, Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy (Cornell 2000), and co-edited (with Lawrence Hass) Re-Reading Merleau-Ponty, Essays Beyond the Continental- Analytic Divide (Humanity Books 2000), (with James Morley) Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World (SUNY 1999), and (with Constantin V. Boundas) Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy (Routledge1994). Pierre Verstraeten est Professeur à l’Université libre de Bruxelles (essentiellement laïque), il a été un des principaux interprètes de la pensée de Sartre. Anti-humaniste rigoureux, il a restitué la profondeur philosophique de l’éthique anti-idéaliste de Sartre, notamment dans son livre sur le théâtre, Violence et Ethique (Gallimard 1972), et ses articles sur le Saint Genet et la morale des années 1960. Il a confronté Sartre aux auteurs de la tradition, dont Hegel, et à la pensée française contemporaine. En dévoilant le poids du collectif et de la dialectique dans L’Être et le Néant aussi bien que la teneur morale et phénoménologique de la Critique de la Raison dialectique et de L’Idiot de la Famille, il a montré la profonde unité de l’œuvre. Directeur, d’abord avec Sartre, de la « Bibliothèque de Philosophie » chez Gallimard de 1966 à 1992, qui fut au carrefour des traditions phénoménologique, dialectique et existentialiste, Sartre lui a accordé une interview majeure, « L’écrivain et sa langue, » Situations IX (1966) et a notamment répondu à la question sous-tendant sa trajectoire : peut-on être révolutionnaire sans en appeler discrètement au sacré ? Sartre a reconnu son optimisme vécu bien que non fondé » (ex : Dictionnaire Sartre, Honoré Champion, p.511) .
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