Levinas and Asian Thought

Acknowledgments

ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Frank Garrett would like to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Peter K. J. Park for guidance throughout this project and to Stephen Harding for immeasurable support. Leah Kalmanson and Sarah Mattice would like to thank the philosophy faculty at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa for their support . We extend our gratitude especially to Ron Bontekoe for initially encouraging us to pursue our idea for this anthology. We would like to thank Graham Parkes, whose pioneering work in comparative philosophy makes this project possible, as well as Bret Davis and Brian Schroeder, whose comparative studies of Levinas continue to inform our own thinking. Finally, we would like to thank the North American Levinas Society and the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, two organizations that provided critical support. All of the editors would like to extend our thanks to the anonymous readers who provided critical insight during the review process. Lastly, we are deeply grateful to Susan Wadsworth-Booth, director of Duquesne University Press, and the editorial assistant, Brock Bahler. Their dedicated attention to this manuscript has been invaluable. ...