Peter Hallward teaches Philosophy at Kingston University,and has written books on Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, postcolonial literature,and contemporary Haitian politics. His books The Will of the People and Blanqui and Political Will are also forthcoming from Verso. Philippe Le Goff teaches French at Kingston University, where he was previously a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy. He completed a PhD on Auguste Blanqui at the University of Warwick in 2015.