Chiara Bottici is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Men and States: Rethinking the Domestic Analogy in a Global Age (2009). She is co-author (with Benoit Challand) of The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (2010) and co-editor (with Benoit Challand) of The Politics of Imagination (2011).