David M. Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Philosophy and Social Criticism" (1978- ), the "Philosophy and Social Criticism Book Series" (1995- ), and "Cultural Hermeneutics" (1973-7). He is the author of "Reading Habermas" (1990), "Symbol and Interpretation" (1974), and "Mythic-Symbolic Language and Philosophical Anthropology" (1971), editor of "Universalism vs. Communitarianism: Contemporary Debates in Ethics" (1990) and co-editor of "The Narrative Path" (1989) and "The Final Foucault" (1988).