Notes on Contributors

C. Fred Alford is Professor of Government at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of nine books and dozens of articles on psychoanalysis and social theory. His most recent books are What Evil Means to Us (Cornell UP, ) and Think No Evil: Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (Cornell UP, ). The first book examines the Western concept of evil, the second the Eastern concept—or rather non-concept. The current article is based on Group Psychology and Political Theory (Yale UP, ), which develops the concept of interpretive leadership further.

John Bird is Head of the School of Sociology in the Faculty of Economics, University of the West of England. His main interests include the interface between the sociological and the psychoanalytic and the way universities can respond to the increasing ethnic diversity of students.

Sander J. Breiner is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with over forty years of clinical experience. He is a professor at Wayne State University and Michigan State University, and trains therapists in the fields of social work and psychoanalysis. He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians, and a founding member of the Psychohistory Forum, specializing in child abuse. As an active researcher, Dr. Breiner has published over eighty scientific papers. His book Slaughter of the Innocents: Child Abuse through the Ages and Today has been highly acclaimed.

David S. Caudill is Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. He is co-editor of Radical Philosphy of Law (Humanities P, ), and author of Lacan and the Subject of Law: Toward a Psychoanalytic Critical Legal Theory (Humanities P, ), Disclosing Tilt: Law, Belief and Criticism (Free UP, Amsterdam, ), and numerous articles in law and psychoanalysis, law and science, and law and religion. He teaches contract law, sports law, and legal ethics.

Simon Clarke is a visiting lecturer at the University of West