Before revision: Noted members Notable past members of the committee have included writers Saul Bellow, J. M. Coetzee, T. S. Eliot, and Adam Zagajewski political theorists Hannah Arendt, Allan Bloom, and Mark Lilla, classicist David Grene, historians Marc Fumaroli, Marshall G. S. Hodgson and Paul Wheatley, sociologist Edward Shils, sinologist Anthony C. Yu, anthropologist Victor Turner, poet and philologist A. K. Ramanujan, philosophers Vincent Descombes, Mircea Eliade, Leszek Kołakowski, Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon, Paul Ricoeur, Stephen Toulmin, and Jean-Luc Marion.
After revision: , David Nirenberg,Noted members Notable past members of the committee have included writers Saul Bellow, J. M. Coetzee, T. S. Eliot, and Adam Zagajewski political theorists Hannah Arendt, Allan Bloom, and Mark Lilla, classicist David Grene, historians Marc Fumaroli, Marshall G. S. Hodgson and Paul Wheatley, sociologist Edward Shils, sinologist Anthony C. Yu, anthropologist Victor Turner, poet and philologist A. K. Ramanujan, philosophers Vincent Descombes, Mircea Eliade, Leszek Kołakowski, Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon, Paul Ricoeur, Stephen Toulmin, and Jean-Luc Marion.