Carlo Diano (Author)
Carlo Diano (1902– 1974) was one of the most important Hellenists and philologists of the twentieth century. In addition to his numerous translations, he is also the author of Linee per una fenomenologia dell’arte.
Jacques Lezra (Introducer)
Jacques Lezra is professor and chair of Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought; Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (translated into Spanish and Chinese); and Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe. With Emily Apter and Michael Wood, he is the coeditor of Barbara Cassin’s Dictionary of Untranslatables.
Timothy C. Campbell (Translator)
Timothy C. Campbell is professor of Italian at Cornell University. In addition to his translations of Roberto Esposito’s Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, he is most recently the author of The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life (2017) from Fordham University Press.
Lia Turtas (Translator)
Lia Turtas recently received her PhD in Romance studies at Cornell University. Her current research centers on reading the figure of automatism across key moments of Italian cinema by drawing upon posthumanism, film theory, and Italian thought.
Timothy Campbell is professor of Italian at Cornell University. He is the author of Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben and Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (both from Minnesota).
Grant Farred is author of several books, including An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America, Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, and Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now (all from Minnesota).
Lia Turtas recently received her PhD in Romance studies at Cornell University. Her current research centers on reading the figure of automatism across key moments of Italian cinema by drawing upon posthumanism, film theory, and Italian thought.
Jacques Lezra is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are República salvaje (2019), On the Nature of Marx’s Things (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), and Contra todos los fueros de la Muerte (2016).
