John Rawls is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His widely discussed work A Theory of Justice was published in 1971. He is the author of Liberty, Equality and the Law, 1987; Justice as Fairness, 1991; Two Concepts of Rules, 1991; Political Liberalism, 1993.

Emmanuel Levinas was the "directeur de l'Ecole Normale Israélite Orientale". He is the author of the books: De l'existence a l'existant, 1947; Totalité et infini: essai sur l'exteriorite, 1971; Autrement qu'etre ou au-delà de l'essence, 1974; Ethique et infini, 1982; Hors Sujet, 1987; A L'Heure des Nations, 1988.

Jean-Francois Lyotard has taught at the Sorbonne and at the the universities of Nanterre and Vincennes, as well as at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of the books: Discours, figure, 1971; Economie libidinale, 1974; La Condition postmoderne, 1979; Le Différend, 1984; His most recent publications include Heidegger and 'the jews', 1990, and Leçons sur l'analytique du sublime, 1991.

Richard Rorty is Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He is the author of the books: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, 1979; The Consequences of Pragmatism, 1982; Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, 1989; Philosophical Papers, Vol-II, 1991; Rorty and Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics, 1995; Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski, 1996.

Peter Dews is the author of the books: Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory, 1988; Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas, 1992; Deconstructive Subjectivities, 1996; The Limits of Disenchantment: Essays on Contemporary European Philosophy, 1996.

Charles Taylor is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author of the books: Hegel, 1975; Sources of Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, 1989; The Ethics of Authenticity, 1991; Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, 1992.

Jon Elster is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He has been one of the major figures in a movement known as "analytic Marxism". He is the author of the books: Logic and Society: Contradictions and Possible Worlds, 1978; Ulysses and the Sirenes, 1984; Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality, 1985; The Multiple Self: Studies in Rationality and Social Change, 1988; Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens, 1992; Deliberative Democracy, 1998.

Antonio Cassese is Professor of International Law in the University of Florence. He is the auhor of the books: International Law in a Divided World, 1986; Human Rights in a Changing World, 1990; Self-Determination of Peoples: A Legal Reappraisal, 1995; Inhuman States: Imprisonment, Detention and Torture in Europe Today, 1996.

Robert A. Dahl is the Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Yale University. He is a winner of the 1991 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize, given by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought for the best book published on liberal and/or democratic theory. He is the author of the books: Who Governs?, 1961; Preface to Democratic Theory, 1963; After the Revolution?, 1970; Poluarchy, 1971; Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy, 1982; Democracy, Liberty and Equality, 1986; Democracy and Its Critics, 1989; Political Opposiitons in Western Democracies, 1996.

Aleksandar Molnar teaches History of Social Theory at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He is the author of the books: Society and Law, 2 Vols, 1994; Basic Human Rights and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia, 1994; People, Nation, Race, 1997.

Marijana Santrac is a student of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. She has published articles in The Annals of the Faculty of Law.

Charlotte Bunch heads the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University. She is the author of the book: Class and Feminism, 1983; Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action, 1988; Gender Violence: A Development and Human Rights Issue, 1992; Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement, 1996.

Obrad Savic teaches History of Social Sciences at the University of Belgrade. He is editor-in-chief of the Belgrade Circle Journal. He is author and editor of the following collections: Philosophical Readings of Freud, 1988; Musil and Philosophy, 1988; Freud and Modernity, 1990; The European Discourse of War, 1995; Serbia - wake up! (Open Society Fund Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, forthcoming); Balkan as a Metaphor (MIT Press, Cambridge, in preparation).

Anthony Giddens is Head of The London School of Economics, and was a Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His previous books include: Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, 1971; Studies in Social and Political Theory, 1976; Central Problems in Social Theory, 1979; Constitution of Society, 1984; The Consequences of Modernity, 1990; Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics, 1995.

Terry Eagleton is Professor of English Literature at the St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. His previous books include: Criticism and Ideology, 1978; Walter Banjamin, 1981; Literary Theory: An Introduciton, 1985; The Ideology of Aesthetics, 1990; Ideology: An Introduction, 1991; The Illusions of Postmodernism, 1996.

Rajesh Sampath teaches History at the University of California, Irvine, and is the author of numerous essays on contemporary French philosophy.

Jean Baudrillard was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris-Nanterre. He is the author of the books: La système des object, 1968; La Société de consommation, 1970; Pour une Critique de l'Economie politique du Signe, 1972; Le Miroir de la Production, 1973; L'Echange simbolique et la mort, 1976; Oublier Foucault, 1977; Simulacres et simulation, 1978; De la Séduction, 1979; Les Stratégies fatals, 1983; Amérique, 1986; Cool Memories, 1987; La transparence du mal, 1990; L'illusion de la Fin, 1992; Le crime parfait, 1994; Fragments: Cool memories III, 1995.

Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. He is the author of the books: Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, 1965; The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, 1975; Knowledge of Language, 1985; What Uncle Sam Really Wants, 1992; World Order: Old and New, 1994; Class Warfare, 1996; Language and Problems of Knowledge, 1996; The Cold War and the University, 1997; Global Contradictions: Answers to Key Political Questions of Our Time, 1997.

Paul Jalbert is Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. He is the author of numerous articles on Communication Sciences. He is the editor of the book - Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches, 1997.

Cristopher Norris is Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales, Cardiff. He is the author of the books: Inside the Myth: Orwell - Views from the Left, 1984; Paul De Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology, 1988; Derrida, 1988; Whats wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the End of Philosophy, 1991; Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals and the Gulf War, 1992; Reclaming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism, 1996; Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction and Critical Theory, 1997.

Igor Marojevic was the editor of the literary and cultural magazine Fragment, as well as the editor of the cultural section of the magazine Monitor. He has published poems in the book Sigh of the Century, 1996. He also published microessays in the reviews Ovdje and Erasmus, as well as in the magazine Vreme. He has published a novel Deceit of God - a Paranoic Fiction, 1997.

Kenneth Rosen is Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Maine, Portland. He is the winner of the 1988 Maine Arts Commission Poetry Competition. He is the author of the books of poetry: Whole Horse; Black Leaves; The Hebrew Lion, 1989; No Snake, No Paradise, 1996.

Hannah D. Georg is a writer. She lives in Belgrade and Prague.

Aleksandra Petrovic is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Pedagogical Research in Belgrade. She has published on dialectology, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.

Nenad Dakovic is a philosopher and a publicist. He has published several essays on postmodernism. He is the author of the following books: Essay on the Spectral, 1994, and The Postmodern Quotation, 1997.

Aleksandar Boskovic has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of St. Andrews. He published the book Maya Religion and Culture, 1990. He is a co-editor of the collection Cybertheory (Virko, Belgrade and Arkzin, Zagreb, forthcoming), and the editor of the Reader in Contemporary Anthropology (Maribor, forthcoming), and Humans, Cyborgs, and Identity: New Perspectives on Blade Runner (Skopje, forthcoming).

Stevan Vukovic is a philosopher and a publicist. He has published several articles and essays about the theory of art, especially on pragmatism.

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