Catherine Breillat is a filmmaker and writer based in Paris. She is known not only for her films focusing on themes of sexuality, but also for her best-selling novels. Pornocracy is the first of her novels to be published in English. Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker- A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.
From the reviews: <p> The volume has a ] papers very much worth reading. Dermot Moran on Nicholas of Cusa introduces renaissance Platonism; Laurent Jaffro on Shaftesburya (TM)s melancholic defense of the Ancients against the Moderns and Leslie Armour on Cudwortha (TM)s conception of divine love and toleration offer genuinely accessible and stimulating papers. (Eric Schliesser, Notre Dome Philosophical Reviews, October, 2008)