The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life:: Facticity, Being, and Language

Acknowledgments

xvii Some of the work presented in this book has already appeared in academic journals. For material that is presented in Chapters 3, 4, 7, and 9, the author acknowledges its original publication in Philosophy Today, Existentia, and Heidegger Studies. The author thanks the editors of these journals for their permission to publish this work, as well as Duncker & Humblot GmbH, the publishing house for Heidegger Studies. I am grateful to John Caputo, the series editor for Perspectives in Continental Philosophy at Fordham University Press, for publishing this book. A project like this one requires assistance from many quarters. I give special thanks to my mother, Jeanne Campbell. For her love and support, I am profoundly grateful. I also thank my brother, Keith Campbell. In many ways, I owe my start in philosophy to him. During the process of writing this book, my brother’s support, most notably his singular sense of humor, was a consistent and reliable source of inspiration for me. Allow me also to acknowledge my extended family: Karina Barany, Pat Campbell, Bill Randolph, Kate Randolph, Betsy Randolph, Katie Campbell, Charles Omell, Annie Dontzin, Mary Grossman, Paul Grossman, Nancy Dontzin, Jürgen Fleckenstein, Jochen Fleckenstein, Janin Fleckenstein, Evelyn Hörster, Thomas Hörster, Linda de Las Cuevas, Monica Lin, Tommy Lin, Cheli de Las Cuevas, and Karin Vogt. The people in my family are always there when I need them, and I am truly thankful for that. I am lucky to have many good friends who have come to me from the world of philosophy. I thank Paul Bruno, Ann Bruno, Ed McGushin, Acknowledgments xviii ■ Acknowledgments Serena Parekh, Max Latona, Roseanne Latona, Steve Findley, Pascale Perroudin , Richard Lynch, Jim Boettcher, Linda Riviere, Gary Gurtler, Marc Lucht, and Mark Goodman. Much of my understanding of what philosophy is and of what friendship is has come about through experiences I have had with these friends. I have had excellent teachers in my life. In particular, I acknowledge my gratitude to Richard Kearney, Jim Bernauer, Richard Cobb-Stevens, and Jacques Taminiaux. Others whom I want to acknowledge here, although not philosophers as such, are all good friends who keep me honest, and if you are not honest, you cannot study philosophy: Mark McCloud, Andrea Allen, Horst Schreiber, Kevin Tringale, Brenda Pizzo, Andy Evans, Melissa Ludwig, Nathan Franus, Sara Cannon, Colleen McCallum, Kelly O’Leary, Loren DeVries, Joel Benzing, Veronica Benzing, Bob Holste, Suzanne Guiod, Theo Schnaufer, Ellis Cose, Jack Horner, Hal Shoup, Mayanne Shoup, and Andy Fenenbock. I am very grateful for their friendship. I had a thorough grounding in the German language before I went to live in Germany, and for that I thank my professors at the Middlebury College Summer Language Program, especially Herr Christopher Wickham . My facility with speaking German improved dramatically during the year that I spent at the Ökumenisches Wohnheim in Heidelberg. For not only helping me learn German but also, and more important, for their friendship, I thank all the Öki’s, especially Dorothea Münch, Susanne Rüge, Thomas Kiauka, Joachim Schauß, Marlinang Butar-Butar, Fernando Enns, and Renate Enns. For the research fellowship that enabled me to live and study in Heidelberg while conducting research at the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt, I express my gratitude to the German Academic Exchange Service (the DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst). I also thank the College of Arts and Sciences at Nazareth College and its dean, Dr. Deborah Dooley, for a subvention grant that generously supplied some of the permission costs for the artistic image on the book cover. I am profoundly grateful to my colleagues in the philosophy department at Nazareth College. Indeed, they are not just colleagues; they are also friends. From them I have learned about the real value of “learning for the sake of knowledge, itself.” John Edelman, Patricia Bowen-Moore, and Heidi Northwood, I thank you for showing me the true meaning of a liberal arts education. I also owe a debt of gratitude to other friends and colleagues whom I have come to know from teaching at Nazareth. In particular , I acknowledge Joe Pestino, Tom Lappas, Becky Pietropaoli, Joe Kelly, Pat Kelly, Jerry Denno, Beverly Brown, Nevan Fisher, Tim Thibodeau, Susan Thibodeau, Monica Weis, Sharon Murphy, Adrielle Mitchell, Olena Acknowledgments ■ xix Prokopovych, Dave Tang, Ed Wiltse, Lisa Perks, Josh Perks, Ginny SkinnerLinenberg , Kathy Edelman, Johnny Bowen-Moore, Greg Foran, Trish Foran, Sara Varhus, David Hill, Deb Dooley, Paul...