Andrew Benjamin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of "Translation and the Nature of Philosophy: A New Theory of Words" (1989) and, with C. Norris, "What is Deconstruction?" (1989). He is the editor of several books, including "Poststructuralist Classics" (1988) and "Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin" (1988).