Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin and a visiting professor at Boston College. He has been a visiting lecturer at several universities across the US and Europe. His publications include: "States of Mind" (1995), "Poetics of Modernity" (1995), and "The Wake of Imagination" (1998).David Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Philosophy and Social Criticism" (1978-), the "Philosophy and Social Criticism Book Series" (1995-), and "Cultural Hermeneutics "(1973-7). He is the author of "The Handbook of Critical Theory" (Blackwell, 1996) and "Reading Habermas" (Blackwell, 1990).