Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Swarthmore College and a Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has published widely in the history of analytic philosophy, especially Wittgenstein and Cavell, and in Aesthetics and German Idealism, especially Hegel. His most recent books are Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject (Oxford, 2016). He is the general series editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature and the volume editor of Stanley Cavell (2003) and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (2009).