is Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at State University of New York. Numerous publications, including
The Tain of the Mirror – Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection (1986),
Inventions of Differance – On Jacques Derrida (1994) and
The Wild Card of Reading – On Paul de Man (1998). A book on Kant,
Of Minimal Things – Rethinking Kant’s Aesthetics, and a collection of essays,
The Honor of Thinking – Theory, Criticism, Philosophy, will appear in 2003. Gasché is currently writing a book on the philosophical concept of Europe.