Gerhard Schweppenhauser is Professor of Design, Communication, and Media Theory at the University of Wurzburg in Germany. He has written many books building on the sociocultural, analytical mission of the Frankfurt School, including two focused on Adorno. James L. Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Duke University. He has written books on Kafka, Rilke, and modern German poetry. His translation of Bernd Witte's Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography won the German Literary Prize of the American Translators Association. His and Kai Evers's translation of Peter Weiss's last play, The New Trial, is also published by Duke University Press.