Pierre Dardot is a philosopher and specialist in Hegel and Marx. His previous books include Sauver Marx?: Empire, multitude, travail immateriel (with Christian Laval and El Mouhoub Mouhoud) and Marx, prenom: Karl (with Christian Laval).
Christian Laval is Professor of Sociology at the Universite de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense. His other books include L'Ambition sociologique: Saint-Simon, Comte, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber; Jeremy Bentham, les artifices du capitalism; L'Ecole n'est pas une entreprise: Le neo-liberalisme a l'assaut de l'enseignement public; and L'Homme economique: Essai sur les racines du neoliberalisme.