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xi Acknowledgments I am much indebted to the Earhart Foundation, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst [German Academic Exchange Service]), and the Office of the Dean and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, for research support at various stages of this project. Special thanks are due to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otfried Höffe for his support of my DAAD grant and his generous assistance and warm hospitality (as well as that of his staff and other members of the philosophy faculty) during my stay at the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, in the summer of 2002. I have benefited from many conversations with colleagues and students; to name them would be a very long list. I especially want to thank them all for their shared enthusiasm for the ideas and concerns that motivated the writing of this book. For their close readings of the manuscript and helpful suggestions with regard to the literature, particularly in the areas of American Studies and scholarship on contemporary education, my deep gratitude goes to Dorothy Pratt and Ann Hartle. For both his cheerful encouragement and his meticulous reading of the manuscript in the revision stage, I am very much indebted to John Van Ingen. For her careful editorial work, my sincere thanks go to Allison Shamrell. For his unwavering support, guidance, and understanding for my project, my heartfelt thanks go to Henry Carrigan of Northwestern University Press. No expression of thanks can do justice to the loving support of my mother Marianne Munzel, of my close friends, and of Angelika and Siegfried . It is to them all that I dedicate this book. ...

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