Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia. He has published many essays and books, including Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary (2002), Adorno and the Political (2006), Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory (Cambridge, 2011) and The Routledge Handbook of the Frankfurt School (co-edited with Axel Honneth and Peter Gordon, forthcoming), and is the editor of German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (2007).