Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau, the translator of ...view moreGeorges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau, the translator of five books by Jean-François Lyotard and others, and the editor or coeditor of numerous books and journal issues.view less