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xi Acknowledgments The essays collected in this book were written over a number of years, many of them arising from my participation in the project undertaken by Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault to translate and to collect Jacques Derrida’s various “texts of mourning,” which were published by the University of Chicago Press in 2001 as The Work of Mourning. My involvement with this project and its French twin, Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde (published in 2003), which spanned several of my graduate and postgraduate years, was itself a work of mourning. I would like to thank both Michael and Pascale-Anne here for their guiding spirit, their kindness, generosity, and friendship, not to mention their exemplary hard work, care, and precision, which has served over the years as a model of excellence for me. The encouragement and support of Len Lawlor, Alan Schrift, and Helen Tartar have also been very valuable for the fruition of this project. I am grateful to Arsalan Memon for compiling the index. While it is impossible to individually recognize and pay tribute to the pioneering work of all the expert readers of Derrida from whom I have enormously benefited, in addition to Michael Naas I would like to acknowledge my indebtedness to Peggy Kamuf, Geoff Bennington, Nicholas Royle, and Rodolphe Gasché. Without the warm welcome and hospitality of Bahman Chahardehi, Shirley and Alex Briggs, Moji and Martin Walmsley, Gordon and Margaret Clayton and family—Gillian, Andrew, and John Gillette—Darius and Ester Saghafi, and Dolores DeArmitt, I would have never been in a xii ■ Acknowledgments position to embark upon this project. I will always remember their kindness with fondness. My greatest debt of gratitude, of course, goes to my family, my parents and my brother, Dara. “‘An Almost Unheard-of Analogy’: Derrida Reading Levinas,” first appeared in Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 15.1 (2005): 41–71. A part of this chapter was first presented at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, at Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy in July 2003. “The Ghost of Jacques Derrida” first appeared in Epoché 10.2 (Spring 2006): 263–86. My thanks go to the editor of Epoché, Walter Brogan, for allowing me to reprint the essay here. The first version of “Phantasmaphotography” appeared in Philosophy Today (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) 44 (2000): 98–111. I thank Dawne McCance and Laura Cardiff for allowing me to reprint “Salut-ations: Between Derrida and Nancy,” an earlier version of which appeared in Mosaic: A Journal for Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 39.3 (September 2006): 151–72. Versions of this chapter were originally presented at the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., in December 2005 and at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Salt Lake City, Utah, in October 2005. ...