Olivier Mongin Author

Olivier Mongin has been director of the French journal Esprit since 1988. He is the author of numerous French-language publications on Paul Ricoeur, democracy, politics, and globalization. Gerald Turner has been one of the leading translators of the Czech language since the early 1980s. He was personal translator to the playwright and President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel, whose writings he translated during the last decade of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.