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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

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ASAF ANGERMANN is a lecturer in philosophy and humanities at Yale University, and is affiliated with Yale's Judaic Studies Program. He is the author of Damaged Irony: Kierkegaard, Adorno, and the Negative Dialectics of Critical Subjectivity (in German: De Gruyter, 2014), editor of Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem: Correspondence 1939–1969 (in German: Suhrkamp, 2015; English translation forthcoming with Polity), and translator of Theodor W. Adorno: Education to Maturity and Responsibility (in Hebrew: HaKibbutz HaMeuchad, 2017). He is currently completing a monograph on the philosophical interrelations between Adorno and Scholem and preparing a new project on the implications of the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory for questions of personal identity, race, and gender. ()

CHARLOTTE KNOWLES is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on feminist philosophy and twentieth‐century European philosophy, particularly phenomenology. Within these fields, her interests lie in social and political issues relating to questions of freedom, complicity, oppression, and resistance. She has published work on the ontological status of social norms and the critical and political potential of ‘authenticity’. Charlotte is currently working on a project on gendered complicity. Prior to her appointment in Groningen, Charlotte taught in the Politics Department at Oxford Brookes University, and the Philosophy Department at Birkbeck College, University of London. ()

VINCENT LE is a graduate in philosophy, English studies, and French studies from the University of Adelaide. He recently completed a master's degree in philosophy at Deakin University with a thesis on the influence of Augustine's concepts of good and evil throughout the history of philosophy, from Aquinas and Descartes, to Kant and Schelling. He has also published in Cosmos and History, Colloquy, and Labyrinth on more contemporary philosophers, such as Nick Land and François Laruelle. He is presently writing a monograph critically examining Nick Land's thought and its legacy as a symptom of our contemporary philosophical, cultural, and political conjuncture. ()

TRACY LLANERA is a Filipina philosopher. She is an assistant research professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut and affiliated faculty at the UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute. Her areas of specialization are philosophy of religion, social and political philosophy, social epistemology, and American pragmatism. She is writing two books on nihilism and working on two new research projects: first, on politics and the power of language, and second, on the processes of self‐transformation and conversion out of hate groups. ()

CLAIRE MCKINNEY is an assistant professor of government and gender, sexuality, and women's studies at William and Mary. She is currently working on a book project that conceptualizes US abortion politics in the context of women's citizenship and the professionalization and politicization of medicine. ()

CECILEA MUN is a Korean‐American philosopher, who specializes in philosophy of emotion and mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. She is also the founding director of the Society for Philosophy of Emotion, and the founding editor‐in‐chief of the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion. Her publications include editing and contributing to Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame: Methods, Theories, Norms, Cultures, and Politics (Lexington Books, forthcoming 2019), and Interdisciplinary Foundations for the Science of Emotion: Unification without Consilience (Lexington Books, forthcoming). ()

YAMINI NARAYANAN is Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development at Deakin University, Melbourne. Her work explores the ways in which other animals are instrumentalised in racist, casteist and fascist ideologies in India. Yamini's research is supported by two Australian Research Council grants. Yamini's work on animals, race, and development has been published in leading journals including Environment and Planning D, Geoforum, Hypatia, South Asia, Society and Animals, and Sustainable Development. Yamini is founding convenor of the Deakin Critical Animal Studies Network. She is a lifelong Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, an honour that is conferred through nomination or invitation only. ()

CAMISHA RUSSELL received her PhD in philosophy from Penn State University in 2013. Her primary research and teaching interests are in critical philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, and bioethics. Her first book, The Assisted Reproduction of Race (Indiana University Press, 2018), considers the role of the race idea in practices surrounding assisted reproductive technologies and argues for the benefits of thinking of race itself as a technology. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. ()

KEVIN RYAN is a lecturer at the School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, and a graduate of Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. In his research, Kevin explores freedom as a practice that is socially and historically conditioned by power relations. He also works with collaborative artist Fiona Whelan under the joint name of Two Fuse, and can be contacted via their website www.twofuse.com. ()

EDWARD THORNTON is a teaching fellow in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests concern the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, especially regarding the political implications of their shared project. He has also written about the history of institutional psychotherapy and institutional analysis. His PhD thesis offers an analysis of the concept of the “line of flight” (ligne de fuite) as it appears in Deleuze and Guattari's many projects. ()

SYLVANA TOMASELLI is a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. She has contributed to numerous works on eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century political theory and intellectual history, including “Reflections on Inequality, Respect and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft,” in The Social and Political Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft. Her entries “Mary Wollstonecraft” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and in Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy are available online. ()