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a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s My warm thanks go to the following people for discussions over the last few years that helped shape the ideas in this book: Vincent Colapietro, Celeste Friend, Irene Harvey, Lee Horvitz, Bill McKenna, Phillip McReynolds , Ashley Pryor, Ben Pryor, Susan Schoenbohm, and Lori Varlotta. The following people graciously read and commented on earlier versions of individual chapters, for which I am grateful: John Compton, Dan Conway , Brian Domino, Susan Jarratt, Charlene Seigfried, and Emily Zakin. I am especially grateful to Del McWhorter for reading multiple chapters multiple times. I appreciate Silvia Stoller’s critical response in the Winter 2000 issue of Hypatia to the article that became Chapter Three for helping me clarify the relationship of transaction and phenomenology. For their advice and guidance, particularly that which helped me navigate the publishing process, I am grateful to John Lachs, Charles Scott, and John Stuhr. I also happily acknowledge the work of my editor, Dee Mortensen, who made many fruitful suggestions that are incorporated in the pages that follow , and the skillful copyediting of Karen L. Lew. The long-standing friendships I have with my sister, Jennifer Sullivan, and my college roommate Michele Howard have helped sustain me and, thus, my philosophical work over the years. I am grateful to my parents Alex George Sullivan and Bettye Sullivan for giving me their love and, just as importantly, an example of how to free-spiritedly question one’s life, demonstrating the truth of Dewey’s claim that the habits that constitute the self can be recon¤gured at any age. Above all, I thank Phillip McReynolds, not only for carefully reading and insightfully commenting on the entire manuscript, but also for his love and support and the many philosophical conversations we have had while cooking and hiking, without which this book would not have been possible. Earlier versions of two of the chapters were originally published in the journal Hypatia. Chapter Three is a revised and expanded version of “Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception ,” published in the Winter 1997 issue, volume 12, pages 1–19. Chapter Four was originally published in a shorter form as “Recon¤guring Gender with John Dewey: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change” in the Winter 2000 issue, volume 15, pages 23–42. I am grateful to Indiana University Press for permission to reprint them here. ...

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