Toward A Dialogical Civilization. Dialogues. Volume 1

Michael J. Sandel is the author of a number of books, including The Tyranny of Merit, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, and What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of the Market. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1980. He has taught his undergraduate course "Justice" to more than 15,000 Harvard students over the years, and video footage of the course was adapted into a PBS television series. Sandel graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University and received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He served on the George W. Bush administration's President's Council on Bioethics. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Raimon Panikkar is one of the world's leaders in interreligious dialogue and the author of more than thirty books. Professor Emeritus of Comparative Philosophy and History of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he has in retirement returned to his native Catalonia.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is university professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. Author of over fifty books, Professor Nasr is a well-known and highly respected intellectual figure both in the West and in the Islamic world. Born in Tehran, raised from the age of twelve in the United States, and a graduate of MIT and Harvard University, Nasr is well qualified to explain Islam to a Western audience. He appears frequently on Meet the Press, as well as other national news shows.