Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity

Acknowledgments

As with any significant undertaking, there are many people whose support, whether intellectual or emotional, warrants an expression of appreciation, and it is my pleasure to discharge this debt here. Earlier drafts of this book were reviewed by Kathy Higgins, Kelly Oliver, Harry Cleaver, and the late Louis Mackey, all of whom I learned from. Most helpful of all, however, have been Bob Solomon and Doug Kellner : both personally and professionally their support has meant a great deal to me. Both colleagues and administrators connected with the philosophy department at the University of Montana have been uniformly supportive of my efforts, and I owe a debt of gratitude to Albert Borgmann, Christa Countryman, Fred McGlynn, Ron Perrin, Jami Sindelar, Deborah Slicer, Dick Walton, and, most of all, to Burke Townsend and Tom Huff. So, too, I would like to express my appreciation to Jane Bunker, my editor at SUNY Press, and Dennis Schmidt, the Editor of the SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. It is also my pleasure to thank the many supportive members of my family—in particular, my mother and late father, Lenore and Jerrold Sherman; my late grandparents, Helen and Sam Rodney; my uncle and late aunt, Bud and Jane Rodney; my sister, brother-in-law, and niece, Ilene, Rich, and Jeri Patasnik; and two cousins who are more like brothers, Jeff and Jim Rodney, their wives, Michele and Susie, and their children (collectively), A. J., Samantha, Alexandra, Emma, Sophie, and Jacob. Most of all, however, it is my pleasure to thank my wife Nancy, to whom this book is dedicated, for it is her love and support that made it possible in the first place. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the following journals for kindly permitting me to reprint copyrighted portions of my previously published research: ix Acknowledgments Chapter 1 contains substantial portions of “Adorno’s Kierkegaardian Debt,” which was originally published in Philosophy & Social Criticism , Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter 2001), pp. 77–106. Chapters 4 and 6 contain sizable portions of “Sartre, Critical Theory , and the Paradox of Freedom,” which was originally published in Philosophy Today, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 198–212. x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...