The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Boris Belay is preparing a thesis (at SUNY Stony Brook and at the Universite des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg) on the disquieting effects of the secret in Bataille's politics Dave Boothroyd is Course Leader for Cultural Studies at the University of Teesside Fred Botting is Professor of English at the University of Keele Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex and Directeur de Programme at the College International de Philosophie in Paris Jonathan Dollimore is Professor of English at the University of York. His publications include Radical Tragedy, Sexual Dissidence and Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture. Alphonso Lingis is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Among his many publications are Excesses: Eros and Culture, Libido: The French Existential Theories, Phenomenological Explanations, Deathbound Subjectivity, The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common, Abuses, Foreign Bodies and Sensation: Intelligibility in Sensibility. John Llewelyn has held posts of Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and Visiting Professor at Loyola University, Chicago, and Memphis State University. His publications include Beyond Metaphysics?, Derrida on the Threshold of Sense, The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics and The HypoCritical Imagination. He has translated Francoise Dastur's Death: An Essay on Finitude. Suhail Malik is Course Leader for Postgraduate Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College, London. He is currently working on a project examining the digital redeployment of human experience. Joanne Morra is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory in the Department of Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University Griselda Pollock is Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies, at the University of Leeds Mark Robson is Lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex Allan Stoekl is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University Steve Sweeney-Turner is Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Leeds Scott Wilson is Director of the Institute for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster, and a managing editor of the journal Cultural ValuesMarquard Smith is the author of 'The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis', published 2000 under ISBN 9780719057502 and ISBN 0719057507.