Richard Rorty is Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. He is the author of: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979); The Conseqeunces of Pragmatism (1982); Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (1989); Philosophical Papers, Vol. II (1991).

Peter Sloterdijk is one of Germany's leading contemporary philosophers. He is the author of: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft (1983), Eurotaoismus (1988), Zur Welt kommen - zur Sprache kommen (1988), Der Denker auf der Binne (1986).

Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe is Professor at the Université des Sciences Humaines (Faculté de Philosophie) de Strasbourg, France. He is author of: La fiction du politique (1987), L'imitation des Modernes (1981), L'absoly littéraire, Le sujet de la philosophie (1981).

Ratsko Mocnik is Professor of Sociology of Culture at Ljubljana University, Slovenia. He is the founder of the "Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis - European Center for the Study of Humanities". He is the author of: The Gold of the Moon (1981), Researches for Sociology of Literature (1983), Word... to Word (1985).

Vojin Dimitrijevic is Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He is the author of: Uncertainity of Human Rights: On the Way from Tyranny to Democracy (1994).

Branka Arsic teaches Mediaeval Philosophy at Belgrade University, and the most outstanding contemporary theoretician of feminism and women's ecriture in Yugoslavia, dealing with radical reinterpretations of philosophical traditions.

Slobodan Simovic is a research associate at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade. He is the author of: Hegel and Hermeneutics (1989), The Arguments of Solipsism (1991), Functions of Truth (1993).

Aleksandar Zistakis teaches Aesthetics at Belgrade University. He is an expert in contemporary philosophy and aesthetics, and has published numerous essays and articles about the philosophy of the Frankfurt School, especially on Walter Benjamin.

Mario Kopic is a philosoper and art historian. He is the author of: Experiencing the Margins of Sense (1991), and the editor of: Art and Philosophy (1990).

Agata Svarc is Assistant Professor at The University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of several articles, as well as the editor of the collection of essays Musil and Utopia (1988).

Karl Popper (1902-1994) was professor of philosophy, logic and scientific methodology. Initially he was guest professor at Cambridge (1935), then moved to Canterbury College at New Zealand until 1946, when he left for London and founded the Chair of philosophy, logic and scientific methodology at the London School of Economics. He was fellow of The British Academy and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of: The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959), The Poverty of Historicism (1945), The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Conjectures and Refutations (1963).

Christopher Norris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Cardiff, Great Britain. He is the author of: What's Wrong With Post-modernism: Critical Theory and the End of Philosophy (1989), A Critical Theory: Post-Modernism, Intelectuals and the Gulf War (1992), The Truth about Post-modernism (1993), Discourse, Difference and Otherness: Philosophical Critique (1994).

Jovan Cekic is a philosopher and conceptual artist from Belgrade. His field of interest covers aesthetics and the history of contemporary art. He is executive director of the journal New Moment. He publishes articles and philosophical essays.

Dejan Sretenovic is an art historian and art critic from Belgrade. He is Director of the Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, Yugoslavia, and one of the editors of New Moment, a journal for visual arts. He published numerous theoretical articles and essays.

Dragan Velikic is a contemporary Yugoslav writer. He is the author of two collections of short stories: Wrong Movement (1983), and Greenhouse (1985); the collections of political essays: Yu-tlantide (1993), Garbage Dump (1994); and novels: Via Pula (1988), Astraghan (1991), Hamsin 51 (1993).

Mileta Prodanovic, painter and writer, has exhibited many times in Yugoslavia and abroad. He teaches at the University of Fne Arts in Belgrade. He is the author of: The New Clunu (1989), Dog With a Broken Backbone (1993), Miasma (1994).

Rada Ivekovic tought Philosophy and Indology at University of Zagreb. She is currently a member of the College International de Philosophie in Paris. She is the author of : Iranian and Indian Ethics (1980), The Other India (1982), Benares (1990), Some Problems of J. F. Lyotard's Post-modern Philosophy (1991), Jugoslawischer Salat (1993), La balkanizacione della regione: il caso Jugoslavo (1994).

Lawrence Norfolk is a British writer presently residing in the US. He is the author of the novels: Lempriere's Dictionary (1990); The Pope's Rhinoceros (1994).

Gerard Raulet is a University Professor and member of the College International de Philosophie, and of the Maison des sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France. He is author of: Strategies de l'utopie (1979), Gehemmte Zukunft (1986), Natur und Ornament (1986), Verabschiedung der (Post-)Moderne (1986).

Jean-Luc Nancy is director of the Faculté de Philosophie, Sciences du Language, Communication at the Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, France. He is the author of: La communauté desaoeuvree (1988), L'experience de la liberté (1988), L'oublie de la Philosophie (1988), Les Muses (1994)...

Obrad Savic teaches History of Social Sciences at the University of Belgrade, and is the editor-in-chief of Text, the first postmodern philosphical periodical in ex-Yugoslavia, as well as the author and editor of the following works: Philosophical Readings of Freud (1988), Musil and Philosophy (1988), Freud and Modernity (1990).

Jean Baudrillard is Professor at the University of Paris - Nanterre. He is the author of: Simulacres et simulation (1978), Les strategies fatales (1983), Cool Memories (1987), La transparence du mal (1990).

Zoran Jankovic is a research associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade. He is the author of numerous articles on contemporary philosophy as well as the translator of philosophical books from German, French and English.

Milorad Belancic is a philosopher and translator. He is an editor of the scientific program of Radio Belgrade, the author of articles on contemporary philosophy and of the following books: Zero Degree of Ideology (1989), The Strategy of Interpretation - Ricoeur's Conceptions of Hermeneutics (1991), Postmodern Anxiety (1994).

Stevan Vukovic is a student of philosophy at University of Belgrade. He has published several articles and essays about the theory of art, especially on pragmatism.

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