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Author Biography

Ullrich Haase is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and editor of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. He is co-author, with William Large, of Maurice Blanchot in the Routledge Critical Thinkers series (2001).