Ugo Vlaisavljevic is Professor of Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy at Sarajevo University. He has published a great number of essays about phenomenology and deconstruction. He is the author of the book Ontology and its Legacy (1995) and of numerous translations of philosophical works.

Jean-Luc Nancy is director of the Faculte de Philosophie, Sciences du Language et Communication at the Universite des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, France. He is author of: La Communaute desacruvre (1988), L'experience de la liberte (1988), L'oublie de la Philosophie (1988), La Pensee finie (1990), Les Muses (1994).

Aleksandar Zistakis teaches Contemporary Philosophy (Aesthetics) at the University of Belgrade. 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.

Marina Blagojevic teaches sociology at the University of Belgrade. She also teaches at the Belgrade Centre for Gender Studies. She is the author of several essays and the book Woman Beyond the Circle (1992). She is co-editor of the collections: The Migrations of the Serbs and the Montenegrins from Kosovo and Metohia - Results of the Survey Conducted 1985-1986 (with Ruza Petrovic); Woman, Violence and War (1995) (with Vesna Nikolic - Ristanovic, Natasa Mrvic Petrovic, Slobodanka Konstantinovic et. al.); Social Changes and Everyday Life (with Silvano Bolcic) (1995).

Predrag Finci taught Philosophy at Sarajevo University. He is also a writer, and publishes stories and essays. He is the author of the books: The Language of the Correspondences (1980); Art and the Experience of the Existence (1986); The Source of the Questions (1987).

Milorad Belancic is a philosopher and translator. He is an editor of the scientific program of Radio Belgrade, author of articles on contemporary philosophy and the following books: The Same and the Completety Other (1985), Zero Degree of Ideology (1989), The Strategy of Interpretation - Ricoeur's Conception of Hermeneutics (1991), Postmodern Anxiety (1994), Fragments of the Sense (1995).

Nenad Dakovic is a well-known Yugoslav philosopher and publicist. He has published several essays on post-modernism. He is author of the book Essay on the Spectral (1994).

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

Nikola Viskovic is Professor of Law at the University of Split. He is the author of the books: The Language of Law (1989); The Concept of Law - a Contribution to to the Integral Theory of Law (1981); and editor of the collection Essays from the Theory of Law (1988). He is an expert on human rights.

Pierre Bouretz teaches Political Philosophy at the Universite Paris I and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is the editor-in-chief of the philosophical review Esprit.

Georges Waysand, physicist, member of the non-governmental organization ICE.

Christian Tomuschat is the member of the International Law Commission Working Group on a Draft Statute for an International Criminal Court, and Professor of Law, University of Bonn, Germany.

Sonja Biserko is the Chairman of the Helsinki Committee of Serbia. She is the author of several essays and the editor of the book Yugoslavia: Collapse, War, Crime (1993).

Miroslav Milovic is Professor of Ethics at the University of Belgrade. He is the author of the books: Reflexive Argument - On the Possibility of a Philosophy of Communication (1989); Ethics and the Discourse (1992).

Jean Baudrillard is Professor at the University of Paris - Nanterre. He is the author of books: La Systeme des objects (1968); La Societe de consommation (1970); Pour une Cntique de l'Economie politique du Signe (1972); Le Miroir de la Production (1973); L'Echange simbolique et la mort (1976); Oublier Foucault (1977); De la seduction (1979); Simulacres et simulation (1978); Les Sirategies fatales (1983); Amerique (198G); Cool Memories (1987); La transparence du mal (1990); L'illusion de La Fin (1992); Le crime parfait (1994); Fragments: Cool memories III (1995).

Obrad Savic teaches History of Social Sciences at the University of Belgrade, and is the editor-in chief of Belgrade Circle, as well as the 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).

Peter Sloterdijk is one of Germany's leading contemporary philosophers. He is the author of: Kricik derzynishen Vernunft (1983); Eurotaoismus (1988); Zur Welt kommen - zur Sache kommen (1988); Der Denker auf der Buhne (1986).

Donald Davidson was Professor at Stanford, Princetown, Rockfeller and Chicago Universities. From 1981 he is Professor Emeritus at Berkeley University, California. He published a great number of essays, some of them gathered in the collections: Inquiries into Truth and Interpretatiou (1984), Essays on Actions and Events (1980); also, he is the co-author (with P. Suppis & S. Siegel) of the book: Decision Making: An Experimental Approach (1957).

Bogdan Bogdanovic is a world-famous architect, theoretician and writer. He is the author of the books: Small Urbanism (1958); The Futile Trowel (1963); Urbanistic Mythologemes (1966); Urbs & Logos (1976); Citydictionary (1982); The Return of the Griffon (1983); Circle with Four Corners (1986); The Knots - Mental Traps of Stalinism (1988); City and Death (1994).

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 Consequences of Pragmatism (1982); Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (1989); Philosophical Papers, Vol. I-II (1991).

Jurgen Habermas is one of the most prominent German philosophers. He is the author of: Technik und Wissenschaft als Ideologie (1968); Theorie und Praxis (1971); Erkenntnis und Interesse (1973); Philosophisch-politische profile (1981); Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, Bd. I-II (1981); Moralbewustsein und kommunikatives Handeln (1983); Der philosophische diskurs der Mederne (1985); Nachmetaphysisches Denken (1988); Strukterwandel der Offentlichkeit (1990); Erlauterungen zur Diskursethik (1991).

Manfred Frank is Professor of Philosophy at Philosophisches Seminar, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat, Tubingen, Germany. He is the author of the books: Der Kommende Gott (1982), Das individuelle Allgemeine - Textstrukturierung und interpretation nach Schleiermacher (1985), Die Unhintergehbarkeit von Individualitat (1986), Gott im Exil (Vorlesungen uber die Neue Mythologie) (1988), Kaltes Hen: Unendliche Fahrt, Neue Mythologie (1989), Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstetkenntnis (1991), Stil in der Philosophie (1992), Conditio Moderna (1993).

Borislav Mikulic taught Classical and Indian philosophy at The University of Belgrade. Now he works at C/O Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He is editor of "Bastard - Arkzin's Department for Critical Publicistics" in Arkzin magazine in Zagreb, and author of the book Karmayoga and Praxis-philosophy.

Rastko Mocnik is Professor of Sociology of Culture at Ljubljana University, Slovenia. He is founder of the "Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis - European Center for the Study of Humanities". He is the author of: The Gold of the Moon (1981); Research Towards a SocioIogy of Literature (1983); Word... to Word (1994).

Jacques Poulain is Professor of Philosophy at College International de Philosophie, Paris. He has published many articles on philosophy and edited numerous collections of articles. He is the author of the books: Logique et religion (1973), L'Age pragmatique ou l'ex-perimenfation totale (1991), La Neutralisation du jugement ou la critique pragmatique de la raison politique (1993), La loi de verite ou la logique philosophique du jugement (1993).

Ion Hancock is Professor of English and Romance Language at University of Texas at Austin. He is Head of UN Praesidium and main UNICEF representative of International Romani Union, and the President of International Roma Federation. He is the author of the books: The Pariah Syndrome: An Account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution (l988); A Handbook of Vlax Romani (1995).

Predrag Matvejevic taught French literature at Zagreb University, and was Guest Professor at INALCO in Paris, where he taught Yugoslav literature and Mediterranean cultures. Now he teaches at the Nouvelle Sorbonne in Paris. He has published the books: La poesie de Circottstance (1971); Pour une poetique de l'evenement (1979); Towards the New Cultural Creativity (1977); Giterature and its Social Functiorc (1977); Yugoslavness Today (1982); Mediterranean Breviary (1987).

Ksenija Bilbija is Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. She publishes translations and essays on contemporary Latin American literature.

Jovana Arsic is a writer from Belgrade.

Tomislav Longinovic moved to the United States in 1982 following an invitation from the International Writers' Workshop in Iowa, after a career as a writer in Yugoslavia. In the USA he acquired an M.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in comparative literature. Since 1990 he has been the head of the Department of South Slavonic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Apart from numerous scholarly articles and prose pieces, he has published the novel A Minute of Silence, the study Border Culture and a translation of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's Crven ban (Red Lord) collection of Serbian erotic folk poetry (all in English) and the novel Sama Amerika (America Alone, in Serbian).

Susan Sontag is one of the most outstanding contemporary American philosophers and writers. She is the author of the books: Against Interpretation and other Essays (1966) Styles of Radical Will (1969), Illness as a Metaphor (1978), Under the Sign of Saturn (1980), On Photography (1979), AIDS and its Metaphors (1988), and numerous novels.

Dragan Velikic is a well-known contemporary Yugoslav writer. He is the author of two collections of short stories: Wrong Movement (1983), and Greenhouse; Ihe collections of political essays: Yu-tlantide (1993) and Garbage Dump (1994); and the novels: Via Pula (1988), Astrakhan (1991), Hamsin 51 (1993), North Wall (1995).

Branka Arsic teaches Modern Philosophy at The University of Belgrade, and is one of the most outstanding contemporary theoreticians of feminism and women's writing in Yugoslavia, dealing wiih radical interpretations of philosophical traditions. She is the co-author (with Mrdan Bajic) of Dictionary (1995).

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

Mileta Prodanovic, painter and writer, has exibited many times in Yugoslavia and abroad. He teaches at the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He is the author of: The New Cluny (1989), Dog with a Broken Spine (1993), Miasma (1994), Heavenly Opera (1996).

Ivana Mardesic is a student of philosophy at the University of Belgrade. She has translated and written several articles and essays about the French post-structuralist and feminist philosophical scene.

Ljubomir Madzar is one of the most prominent Yugoslav economists. He is the author of the books: Optimization in the Theory of ihe Production and Economical Development (1979); Eclipse of the Socialist Economies (1980); Basics of the Theory of Development and Planning (1990).

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