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Perhaps we expect an author’s gratitude from a book on memory in particular , although the gratitude would have to be inseparable from the promises it carries from those who helped it leave an imprint visible at least for a time. Since the list of helpers necessarily ends, without ending, in the sea of the nameless, naming names is not an unproblematic gesture; I will have to assume its violence, even if it exceeds me. Rudi Morawietz first introduced me, in the no-man’s land of rural apoliticism, to philosophy in general, and the burning pages of Benjamin’s “Theses” in particular. Günter Schulte inoculated madness into those trying to read Stirner, Marx, and Nietzsche. John Caputo’s erudition and clarity proved to be invaluable. Discussions with Dennis Schmidt created an atmosphere in which ideas proliferated and grew into arguments. I would also like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture for financial assistance at some points in the development and execution of this project. Most of all, those who built today’s riches, fought for an educational system allowing people with little means to study, and those who wrote about such struggles, need to be acknowledged as having generated the bulk of this book. Maybe epigone is not such a bad title to bear, even on Sundays. vii Acknowledgments ...