Christina Lafont. She is professor of philosophy at Northwestern University (Evanston, United States) where she is chair of the philosophy department and director of the critical theory program. She is the author of the books Democracy without Shortcuts (2020), (Spanish edition: Democracia sin atajos, Trotta, 2021); Global Governance and Human Rights (2012); Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure (2000) (Spanish edition: Language and opening of the world, 1997); The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (1999) (Spanish edition: Reason as language, 1993), and co-editor of the books Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order (2017) and Habermas Handbook (2017). She studied philosophy in Valencia and in 1992 she received her doctorate from the University of Frankfurt under the direction of Jürgen Habermas. In 2011 she was nominated to the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam and in 2012/2013 she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin.