Adam Katz is assistant teaching professor at the University of Quinnipiac, Connecticut, USA.and is the editor of The Originary Hypothesis: A Minimal Proposal for Humanistic Inquiry (2007).

Eric Gans is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA. With The Origin of Language: A Formal Theory of Representation (1981) he created the discipline of Generative Anthropology. His major recent works in that area are The Scenic Imagination from Hobbes to Freud (2007) and A New Way of Thinking: Generative Anthropology in Religion, Philosophy, Art (2011). A new edition of his 1990 Science and Faith: The Anthropology of Revelation appeared in 2015. Since 1995, he has edited the online journal Anthropoetics and produced nearly 500 online "Chronicles of Love and Resentment." His latest book is a translation of Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal (2015).