RUEDIGER SAFRANSKI is a distinguished philosopher and writer whose works have received numerous awards and have been translated into nineteen languages. His books published in English include
Nietzsche: A Political Biography (2001),
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil (1998), and
Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy (1990). He lives in Germany.
ROBERT E. GOODWIN is a member of the faculty of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is the author of The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama (1998) and the translator of Markus Werner's novel On the Edge (2012).