Notes on Contributors

Rachel Albeck-Gidron is professor of Hebrew literature at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of The Century of the Monads: Leibniz's Metaphysics and Twentieth-Century Modernity; Exploring the Third Option: A Critical Study of Yoel Hoffmann's Works; and Shamanism and Literary Criticism. She has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and a visiting researcher at Doshisha University in Kyoto.Hannes Bajohr is assistant professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. Together with Florian Fuchs and Joe Paul Kroll, he is coeditor of History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader and has edited a special issue of New German Critique, “Hans Blumenberg at 101.”Hans Blumenberg (1920 – 1996), philosopher and intellectual historian, was the author of The Legitimacy of the Modern Age; The Genesis of the Copernican World; The Legibility of the World; Work on Myth; Lifetime and World Time; Care Crosses the River; St. Matthew Passion; Rigorism of Truth; Lions; The Laughter of the Thracian Woman: A Protohistory of Theory; Paradigms for a Metaphorology; and Shipwreck with Spectator.Joe Paul Kroll has translated Rigorism of Truth into English and has coedited, with Hannes Bajohr and Florian Fuchs, History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader.Caroline Walker Bynum is professor emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) and University Professor Emerita at Columbia. A former MacArthur Fellow, she was president of the American Historical Association in 1996 – 97. Her books include Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast, Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; Wonderful Blood; Christian Materiality; Dissimilar Similitudes; and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 – 1336, which received prizes from the American Philosophical Society and Phi Beta Kappa.William M. Chace, president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor of English at Stanford University, is the author of The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics; and One Hundred Semesters.Charly Coleman is associate professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-individualist History of the French Enlightenment and The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment.Natalie Zemon Davis (1928 – 2023) was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University and, in 1987, president of the American Historical Association. She received the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the American National Humanities Medal, and the Aby Warburg Prize and was appointed to the Order of Canada as a Companion. Her books include The Return of Martin Guerre, translated into twenty-two languages; Society and Culture in Early Modern France; Fiction in the Archives; Trickster Travels; Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy; Women on the Margins; Slaves on Screen; and Listening to the Languages of the People.Thibault De Meyer, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Namur, Belgium, is the author of Qui a vu le zèbre? L'invention de la perspective animale.John Gastil, Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Public Policy, and Political Science at Penn State University, is the author of Democracy in Small Groups; The Group in Society; Political Communication and Deliberation; By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections; and numerous coauthored books, including (with Eric Olin Wright) Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance.Jeffrey F. Hamburger is the Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University. His books include Color in Cusanus; The Birth of the Author; Nuns as Artists; The Visual and Visionary; The Rothschild Canticles; Script as Image; and Diagramming Devotion.Yoel Hoffmann (1937 – 2023) was born in Romania and fled Europe with his parents for British Mandate Palestine. As a young man, he spent two years living in a Zen monastery studying Chinese and Japanese texts, then taught at the University of Haifa for many years as professor of Japanese poetry, Buddhism, and philosophy. He did not begin writing fiction until in his forties. Today he is widely regarded as Israel's leading writer of avant-garde fiction. His books include Kastchen, and Other Stories; Bernhardt; The Christ of Fish; The Heart Is Katmandu; The Shunra and the Schmetterling; Curriculum Vitae; and Moods. Hoffmann's honors include the Bialik Prize and the Prime Minister's Prize of Israel.Michael Shkodnikov's published translations into Hebrew include Pushkinski Dom by Andrei Bitov; At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft; Leucippe and Cleitophon by Achilles Tatius; Poetic Justice by Martha Nussbaum; and Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution: The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity by Shmuel Eisenstadt.Jeffrey M. Perl is the founder and editor of Common Knowledge. His books include Skepticism and Modern Enmity: Before and after Eliot; The Tradition of Return: The Implicit History of Modern Literature; and (as editor) Peace and Mind: Civilian Scholarship from “Common Knowledge.” He taught for many years at Columbia University and the University of Texas and is now professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a member, at Durham University in England, of the Center for Humanities Innovation.Adir H. Petel, the fiction editor of Common Knowledge, has published two articles in this journal: “The Critic as Human Being” (2017) and “Moral Geometries” (2020). He teaches at several colleges in central Israel.Kathryn Reklis is associate professor of theology and codirector of comparative literature at Fordham University. She is the author of Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination: Jonathan Edwards and the Making of Modernity and coeditor of Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts.Miguel Tamen, dean of the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities, is the author of Closeness; What Art Is Like, in Constant Reference to the Alice Books; Friends of Interpretable Objects; Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies; and The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation.G. Thomas Tanselle, former vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in London in 2015. His many books include Literature and Artifacts; Bibliographical Analysis; Descriptive Bibliography; A Rationale of Textual Criticism; Books in My Life; and American Publishing History: The Tanselle Collection.Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is the author of Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy; The Tyranny of the Moderns; Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People; J. S. Mill's Political Thought; Mill on Democracy; and Representative Democracy.

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