Till van Rahden holds the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies and is associate professor in the department of literature and modern languages at the Universiteacute; de Montreacute;al. Marcus Brainard earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Osnabruuml;ck, Germany, and is the editor and translator of numerous works of philosophy and history.
Heinrich Meier is director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich, professor of philosophy at the University of Munich, and permanent visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.