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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The original project of this book was motivated by the teaching of the late Paul de Man. I am grateful to Geoffrey Hartman for his critical attention and comments on the entire manuscript , and to other teachers and colleagues who have discussed and read allor parts of the manuscript, and who have provided the intellectual stimulation for my work: Harold Bloom, J. Hillis Miller, Andrzej Warminski, Cynthia Chase, Shoshana Felman, KevinNewmark, Thomas Greene, and DavidMarshall. I would like to give special thanks to the friends and colleagues who provided both crucial insights and support and without whose advice the completion of this work would not have been possible: David Guenther (whose creative explanationsof Newtonian physics contributed to my understanding of the problems faced by Kantian philosophy), Dolora Wojciehowski, and Thomas McCall. I received helpful suggestions as well from Thomas Keenan, Jill Robbins, Jonathan Culler, Timothy Bahti, Ian Balfour, Deborah Esch, and Roger Blood. I am also grateful to Marie Blanchard for her sensitive copyediting of the manuscript, to Michael Shae for careful preparation of the index, and to Kimberly Johnson for her help with the proofs. Finally, I would like to thank my family for their unfailing support and my mother, in addition, for her perceptive advice. Earlier versions of Chapters Two, Three, and Four appeared in MLN 100:5 (1985), Tale French Studies 74 (1988), and PsychCritique 2:3 (1987), respectively. The completion of the manuscript was funded in part by grants from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and from the A.Whitney Griswold Fund. This page intentionally left blank [34.236.152.203] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 03:01 GMT) EMPIRICAL TRUTHS AND CRITICAL FICTIONS This page intentionally left blank ...