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ADAM AUCH was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He currently works as a part-time instructor and writing tutor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he recently completed a PhD in philosophy. He credits his brother, Nathan, for sparking his interest in Cohen’s music. In his research, he wrestles with philosophical issues related to language, knowledge, and communication. When he’s not doing that, he spends far too much time drinking tea, solving crossword puzzles, and indulging in analog photography. Otherwise, he has been known to wander through train stations humming “Lili Marlene” while he waits for Hank Williams to finally get back to him.
BABETTE BABICH is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City. Her most recent book, The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology (2013), discusses k.d. lang’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and desire (male and female) in the context of phenomenological sociology and classical critical theory (Adorno), technological culture, and music from the ancient Greek lyric to Beethoven’s dissonance (Nietzsche). In 1996, she founded New Nietzsche Studies, the journal she continues to edit. She specializes in continental philosophy of science and technology and has published on the politics of academic philosophy including women in philosophy in addition to a wide range of secret chords.
STEVEN BURNS studied philosophy at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, before doing graduate studies at the Universities of Alberta, Western Australia, and London (PhD, 1970). He is now retired after teaching for forty-four years at Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College in Halifax. His Cohen chapter began as a one of a series of lectures on Philosophical Themes in Canadian Literature, which he gave at the University of Vienna in 2006. Ludwig Wittgenstein has been one of his main research interests, and in 2001 he published a translation of On Last Things, a book by the 23-year-old Otto Weininger which Wittgenstein much admired. He first encountered Leonard Cohen’s poetry while studying in Edmonton, and sometimes believes that the sisters of mercy shared a room downstairs in the house he lived in.
LIAM P. DEMPSEY teaches philosophy at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Greater Vancouver. He received his PhD in philosophy from Western University in 2003. His research and teaching interests include philosophy of mind, emotion theory, and early modern philosophy. He has recent publications in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Journal of Consciousness Studies. Like a bird on a wire, he strives always to balance philosophical analysis with cutting-edge empirical research.
PAWEŁ DOBROSIELSKI was born in 1984, and is a philosopher and culture analyst who works at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His main academic interests concern social memory and public discourse. He is constantly beating the odds and cherishing his little winning streak as long as it lasts.
RACHEL HALIBURTON is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sudbury–Laurentian University. She firmly believes that popular culture is a source of fascinating philosophical insights, and that she is doing research when she listens to music, watches Doctor Who, and reads murder mysteries. She would like to teach at least one class wearing the famous blue raincoat, as she thinks that it would spruce up her dowdy professorial wardrobe.
LIANE HELLER is an editor at the Halifax Chronicle Herald, where she also writes a bi-monthly column, “On the Bus.” A former feature writer at the Toronto Star, she won the Media Club of Canada award for her coverage of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and has received several other awards for news reporting. Heller is the author of six books, including four poetry collections, most recently Code of Silence (2009). She has also contributed poetry, essays, and reviews to magazines and periodicals. Despite her very public profession, Heller favors the solitude of her secret life.
JASON HOLT is Associate Professor at Acadia University, where he teaches courses in philosophy and communication for the School of Kinesiology. His research focuses on aesthetics, philosophy of mind, as well as popular culture and philosophy. His books include Blind-sight and the Nature of Consciousness, which was shortlisted for the 2005 CPA book prize, various edited volumes, and literary books, most recently a book of poetry, Inversed. He doesn’t mind being small between the stars but large against the sky.
TIMOTHY P. JACKSON is Professor of Christian Ethics at The Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a Senior Fellow at The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory. Professor Jackson has previously held teaching posts at Rhodes College, Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of Notre Dame. He has been a Visiting Fellow at The Center of Theological Inquiry, The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, The Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton, and The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Jackson received his BA in Philosophy from Princeton and his PhD in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Yale. He is the author of Love Disconsoled: Meditations on Christian Charity (Cambridge, 1999) and The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice (Princeton, 2003). His current book project is entitled Political Agape, and he hopes it will help democracy come to the USA.
CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM is a recovering academic living above a network of tapped out garnet mines now turned mushroom farms in eastern Pennsylvania. In the cool damp of the dark space of the mines Dear Heather isn’t auditory cheesecake; it is the spore of the fungi, full of promised nourishment, but which has not yet seen the light.
CHRISTOPHER LAUER is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii-Hilo. He specializes in German idealism and the ethics of recognition and is the author of The Suspension of Reason in Hegel and Schelling (Continuum, 2010) and Intimacy: A Dialectical Study (Bloomsbury, 2015). A father of a three-year-old and a one-year-old, he increasingly finds that he aches in the places he used to play, but thus far he has resisted the urge to hit the open road—though, just in case, he’s got this rig that runs on memories.
AGUST MAGNUSSON originally hails from the gallery of frost that is Reykjavik, Iceland. He can currently be found bringing enlightenment to the huddled masses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he works as an underpaid philosophy professor. Mr. Magnusson is currently working on a dissertation on Kierkegaard and finds himself constantly thwarted in his efforts to immerse himself in existential despair by the cheerfulness that keeps breaking through in his life. He is a longtime devotee of the works of Leonard Cohen and an avid collector of orange crates. Mr. Magnusson, a onetime political candidate for the office of mayor of Boogie Street, can usually be found doing the dishes or playing Thomas the Tank Engine with his son Joakim.
MARCIN NAPIÓRKOWSKI is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw, and from 2013 to 2014 was a visiting researcher at the University of Virginia. He is author of two books on contemporary culture and collective imagination: Mitologia współczesna (The Contemporary Mythology) (2013) and Władza wyobraźni (The Power of Imagination) (2014), and over thirty research papers published in various academic journals. He is also an occasional columnist and commentator for Polish newspapers and magazines. As a philosopher he has spent a long time reading Heidegger and watching from his lonely wooden tower, but because of vertigo he switched to popular culture and now writes mainly about urban legends, conspiracy theories, and celebrated songwriters.
SIMON RICHES is a researcher and trainee clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychia
try, King’s College London. He previously taught philosophy at University College London and Heythrop College, University of London. He holds a PhD in philosophy from University College London and has also studied philosophy at the University of Southampton and psychology at the University of East London. His research interests lie in epistemology and the intersection between philosophy and psychology. He is editor of The Philosophy of David Cronenberg, and contributor to The Philosophy of David Lynch, Dune and Philosophy, Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television, 101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die, and 101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die, as well as other volumes on popular culture. He has tried, in his way, to be free.
WIELAND SCHWANEBECK earned his PhD in 2013 from Dresden University of Technology with a study of the impostor motif in American literature and film. He gave up a career in music, for though he’s been practicing his burning violin for ages, his Mozart continues to sound like bubble-gum. As long as they keep ejecting him from the Tower of Song, he will focus his energies on teaching and researching topics in Gender and Masculinity Studies, Adaptation Studies, and British film history, stopping occasionally to ask himself why he doesn’t look good in a hat.
GARY SHAPIRO is a philosopher who has been lecturing both in the US and in Stockholm, Ireland, Athens, and Turkey since his recent retirement as Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Richmond. His books include: Nietzschean Narratives; Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women; Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel; and Archeaologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying. Shapiro is currently completing a book on Nietzsche’s Metapolitics of the Earth, after which he will turn to thinking about the meaning of land and earthwork art as ways of making sense of the relations of humans with the earth. In the spirit of Cohen’s naming the place of thinking and philosophy as the space between the nameless and the named, he plays with questionable and questioning expressions like “geoaesthetics of the anthropocene” and “post-periodization.”