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sign. Mumia Abu-Jamal was a radio journalist in Philadelphia, known as “the voice of the voiceless”. He won a Major Armstrong Award for radio journalism, and was named one of Philadelphia’s “people to watch” in 1981 by Philadelphia magazine. He was president of the Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia. In December of 1981, Mumia was shot by a Philadelphia cop when he intervened in a street incident where the cop was beating his brother with a flashlight. The police officer was also shot and killed, and witnesses saw other men run from the scene. When police arrived, they beat the wounded Mumia before taking him to the hospital, and he was charged with murder. Mumia has spent 19 years in prison, facing execution for a crime he did not commit. In 1995 he was put in disciplinary confinement for writing the book Live From Death Row (Addison-Wesley, 1995; Paperback by Avon, 1996). His other books are Death Blossoms (Plough Publishing, 1997, with a preface by Julia Wright, daughter of Richard Wright), Survival Is Still a Crime (Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal Press, 1990), and Still Black, Still Strong, Interviews with three political prisoners. by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal, & Assata Shakur (Semio-text, 1993). Homepages: http://www.mumia.org / http://www.mumia2000.org / http://www.freemumia.com/ Email of the coordinators of the free campaign: mumia @ aol.com
Karl
Baier is
Assistant Professor at the Institute
of Philosophy of the catholic-theological Faculty at the Vienna University.
His main fields of specialisation and research are Phenomenology,
Philosophy of the Middle Ages, intercultural Philosophy and interreligious
Theology. His is author of many articles, of
the booklets Wort-Ereignis Stille (Fischbachpresse: Texing 1997), Ortschaften
des Erwachens (Diotima Presse: Obergrafendorf, 2000), and the book Yoga
auf dem Weg nach Westen (Königshausen und Neumann: Würzburg 1998). Homepage: http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Karl.Baier/ Email: karl.baier @ univie.ac.at Nonka
Bogomilova is
Senior Research Fellow at the
Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her
main fields of specialisation and research are Philosophy of Religion and
Philosophical Anthropology. She was long years member of the Editorial Board of Filosofski
alternativi. N. Bogomilova is co-editor and co-author of the collections Identities
(Sofia, 1995) and Universal and National in Bulgarian Culture (Sofia,
1996), and author of the book Longing for the Absolute, Sofia, 1994. Homepage:
http://ipr-bas.hit.bg/Bogomilova.html Email:
nbogomilova @ diana.nbu.acad.bg Angela Büchel Sladkovic is Research Associate at the Theological Faculty of
Fribourg, Switzerland. Her fields of specialisation and research are centred on
the link between politics and theology. She is working currently on a research
project in fundamental theology (“Die Philosophie von Simone Weil als
Herausforderung für die Fundamentaltheologie”) and on a dissertation on
Simone Weil. Email: angela.buechel @ freesurf.ch Laurie
Calhoun is
the author of Philosophy Unmasked: A
Skeptic's Critique (University Press of Kansas, 1997) and numerous published
essays, poems, and articles. She
has taught philosophy at the University of South Florida, SUNY College at
Fredonia, and St. Cloud State University, and chemistry at California State
University, Northridge. Currently
she lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Email:
lcalhoun @ fas.harvard.edu Stefania Dimitrova has obtained his M.A. in Psychology, and PhD in
Sociology of Religion. She is President of the Foundation Madara Bulgaria. Her
main fields of specialisation and research are the Problem of Time in Eastern
Thought, the Problem of the Self, and Psychoanalytical Social Issues. She is
author of many articles on Eastern Thought, and editor of “In Search of the
Self at the Corner of XXI Century” (Sofia, 1999). Homepage: http://www.madara.bas.bg/ Email: madara @ bas.bg Chris Doude van Troostwijk worked as philosophy lecturer at the Pedagogical and
Theological Faculty in Amsterdam, and as a journalist at the Dutch Oecumenical
Broadcasting Company. Amongst his more recent articles are “Magic and
magicality: philosophical figures of self-overflow” (Ariès 21, Paris 1998);
“The knowledge that we knew. Esthetical contemplation in Kant and Giacometti”
(Boekencentrum, Zoetermeer 1999) and “The ‘différend’ and the name of
God. Philosophical annotations to the translation of the tetragrammaton JHWH”
(Tijdschrift voor Theologie 4, Nijmegen 1999). He translated Lyotard’s La
confession d’Augustin into Dutch and wrote an introduction to it, entitled
“Augustin on the seashore” (Baarn 1999). He is finishing a PhD on the
philosophy of finding (trouvaille) at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of
Amsterdam. Email: CHDoudevanTroostwijk @ compuserve.com Roland Faber Homepage: http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Roland.Faber/ Email:
roland.faber @ univie.ac.at Anthony B. Kelly is Doctor (PhD) in Theology. He lives in South
Australia and holds a BA in Philosophy, Sociology and Theology from Flinders
University, did Honours in Philosophy in 1988 and Postgraduate work in
Philosophy 1989-95 and in Theology 1996-1998. He has been a Board Member of the
Inter-Church Trade and Industry Mission for years 1973-1977, and its Chairman in Email: ab_my_Kelly @ hotmail.com Thalia
Gur-Klein has two
M.A degrees, one in Linguistics and English and American Literature, achieved at
Leiden University, and one in Jewish Studies from Amsterdam University. Her
fields of specialisation and research are cenetered on Feminist Theology,
Exegesis and Feminist Exegesis, Rabbinical Literature, Jewish mysticism and
spirituality, Yiddish literature, and Jewish culture and history.
Actually she is working on a Ph.D. project, titled Some Like them Iconised;
Jewish Females Sainthood, describing mystification and elevation of Jewish
women. Email:
gurklein @ hetnet.nl Rolf Kühn is Professor at Vienna University. His main fields of
specialisation and research are Phenomenology and Contemporary French
Philosophy. He is co-editor of Scham: Ein menschliches Gefühl. Kulturelle, psychologische und philosophische Perspektiven (Westdeutscher
Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1997). About his
main publications are the books Leiblichkeit als Lebendigkeit (Alber
Verlag, Freiburg, 1992), Existenz und Selbstaffektion in Therapie und Phänomenologie
(Passagen Verlag, Wien), Leben als Bedürfen. Eine lebensphänomenologische
Analyse zu Kultur und Wirtschaft (Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996) and Husserls
Begriff der Passivität (Alber, Freiburg 1998). Philippe Lauria has a M.A. in philosophy and PhD in economics. He has
been lecturer at the university of Grenoble, and is working now on a
dissertation about The Signification of transfinite ensembles and the
ontology of G. Cantor at the J. Moulin University Lyon III. His main fields
of specialisation and research are concentred on the intersection of
epistemology, philosophy and ethics. He is author of different articles about
responsibility, the civil pact of solidarity, recently voted in France, and
power. Email: philippe.lauria @ mageos.com Hedwig
Meyer-Wilmes is Professor of Feminist Theology at the Faculty of
Systematic Theology and Religious Sciences of the Catholic University of
Nijmegen (Holland), and the University of Leuwen (Belgium). She is also
President of the European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR). She
works currently on “Church-identities in postmodernity” and “Women
experiences of religion in poesy”. She is editor of Frauenkirchen; Women
Churches; Eglises de femmes (Grünewald, Mainz, 1995) and Feminist
Perspectives in Pastoral Theology (1998), and author of the books /Engl.: Rebellion
on the borders. Feminist Theology between Theory and Praxis (1995)/ and Zwischen
lila und lavendel. Schritte
feministischer Theologie
(Pustet, Regensburg, 1996). Homepage: http://www.eswtr.org Email: H.MeyerWilmes @ theo.kun.nl Paul Ricœur is one of the most important contemporary French
philosophers, and one of the principal representatives of philosophical
Hermeneutics. He was professor of philosophy at the Universities of Strasbourg
and Paris (the Sorbonne, Nanterre) and has been a visiting professor at numerous
other universities, in particular at the University of Chicago. He is the
recipient of over thirty honorary degrees from universities all over the world,
and of many awards, including the Grand Prix de l'Académie
française pour la philosophie (1991). Ricoeur has written on both,
philosophical and theological issues in hermeneutics. His main works are Gabriel
Marcel et Karl Jaspers (Paris, Temps Présent,
1948), Le volntaire et l’involontaire (Paris: Aubier, 1950) (Freedom
and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern
University Press, 1966), Histoire et vérité
(Paris: Seuil, 1955), L’homme faillible (Paris: Aubier, 1960)
(Engl.: Fallible Man, Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1965), Le symbolisme du
mal (Paris: Aubier, 1960), (Engl.: The Symbolism of Evil, Boston:
Beacon Press, 1969), De l’interprétation. Essay sur Freud (Seuil,
Paris 1965), (Engl.: Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation,
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), Le conflit des interprétations
(Paris: Seuil, 1969), (Engl.: The Conflict of Interpretations, Evanston,
Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1974), La métaphore vive (Paris:
Seuil, 1975), (Engl.: The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the
Creation of Meaning, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), Hermeneutics
and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action, and Interpretation
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), Temps et récit, 3 vol. (Paris:
Seuil, 1983, 1984, 1985), (Engl.: Time and Narrative, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1984, 1985, 1988), Du texte à
l 'action (Paris: Seuil, 1986), Soi-même comme un autre (Paris:
Seuil, 1990), (Engl.: Oneself As Another, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1992), Lectures, 3 vol. (Paris: Seuil, 1991, 1992, 1994). Yvanka B. Raynova is Professor and Head of the Department for
Contemporary European Philosophy and Gender Studies at the Institute of
Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is also President of the
Bulgarian Society for Francophone Philosophy and Culture, and Director of the
Institute for Axiological Research, Vienna. She is Editor of different
Collections on Contemporary Philosophy, and has translated into Bulgarian
Sartre’s L’être et le néant and Ricoeur’s Le conflit des
interprétations. About her main publications are the books From
Existential Philosophy to Postpersonalism (1992), From Husserl to Ricoeur
(1993), Jean-Paul Sartre, the Philosopher without God, 2 vol. (1995),
Philosophy at the End of XX Century (1995). Homepage: http://raynova.europeanphilosophy.org
mirror: http://phaidon.philo.at/~iaf/raynova.html Email: raynova @ europeanphilosophy.org or
yvanka.raynova @ univie.ac.at
Radek
Rzepoluch is a
freelanced philosopher from Przemystka, Poland, also a painter, a poet, and a
composer. He devoted himself to individual creative thinking and arts, out of
the academic “milieu”. Some of his philosophical essays and impressive
digital artworks can be found on the web. Homepages: http://members.tripod.com/Aazrane/enter.htm http://www.imagesofeyes.com/macius.htm http://www.thedigitalartist.com/aazrane.htm Email: aazrane @ poczta.onet.pl Ilse M. Seifried is pedagogue, member of the Rosa Luxemburg Institute,
Vienna. She is editor with
Martina Dutter-Jonas and Margarete Maurer of Lesetexte ohne Rollenklischees
(RLI-Verlag, Wien 1997), and author of Das Frauenquiz. lustvolle Verirrungen
im Labyrinth der Frauenfragen (1991), Gesucht und gefunden: Mädchenfreundlliche
Kinderbücher (RLI-Verlag, Wien 1996). Recently lse M. Seifried has organized an
exhibition on labyrinths in St. Pölten, Austria – Die Kunst zu wandeln:
Das Labyrinth, Mythos und Wirklichkeit (Nov. 23, 1999 - Jan. 24, 2000). Anna Sobieska is postgraduate student at the Departement of Ethics,
University of Lodz, Poland. She works actually on feminist critic of traditional
ethics. Email: asobiesk @ kki.net.pl Peter Steeves is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy
of DePaul University, Chicago. He has taught at Universidad del Zulia,
Venezuela. His main areas of teaching and research include applied ethics
(especially animal/environmental and bioethics), social and political philosophy
(especially communitarianism), Latin American philosophy, and phenomenology
(especially the work of Edmund Husserl). He has published Founding Community:
A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry (Kluwer, 1998) and is the editor and a
contributor to Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (SUNY,
1999). http://www.depaul.edu/~phildept/vitae.htm Email: psteeves @ wppost.depaul.edu
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