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...
