Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was a French philosopher associated with the poststructuralist and postmodernist movements. Called the most famous philosopher of our time, he is most well known for developing the concept of deconstruction. He published more than forty books, including Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, and Speech and Phenomena.

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. His books include Zoontologies and What Is Posthumanism?, both from Minnesota.

Ned Lukacher is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Primal Scenes: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis.