Steven V. Hicks is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Queens College of the City University of New York. He obtained his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Millsaps College, was a German Academic Exchange Scholar at the Hegel-Archiv, Ruhr Universität, Bochum, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University for his dissertation "The Concept of the Person in Hegel's System". He is the author or co-author of a number of articles on Hegel and nineteenth-century German philosophy and literature, including "Hegel and Fontane on Social Substance" (Seminar, 1999); "Illusion and Dissolution: Fontane's Stine" (German Studies Review, 1995); and "Hegel on International Law, International Relations, and the Possibility of World Community" (Dialogue and Universalism, 1995).