James D. Reid is a Professor of Philosophy at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and has taught ethics and the history of philosophy there and at several other schools. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support translation work on Martin Heidegger and an NEH award for scholarship in German Romantic philosophy and poetry. He is an author, editor, and translator and the series cofounder and editor of the Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry.