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Charles Altieri teaches modern poetry and literary theory at the University of California, Berkeley. His two most recent books are The Particulars of Rapture and The Art of Modernist American Poetry . He is working on a book on Wallace Stevens. Daniel Brudney is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Marx's Attempt to Leave Philosophy . His work in philosophy and literature includes “Lord Jim and Moral Judgment: Literature and Moral Philosophy,” in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , and “Marlow's Morality,” in Philosophy and Literature . Anthony J. Cascardi is Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and Margaret and Sidney Ancker Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications on literature, philosophy, and aesthetics include The Subject of Modernity, Consequences of Enlightenment , and Literature and the Question of Philosophy . Since 1995 he has been General Editor of the Penn State Press series of books on literature and philosophy. Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University. He is the author of many influential and groundbreaking books, including The Claim of Reason, Cities of Words , and Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow . His work has been the subject ... log in or subscribe to read full text