Albert Camus' Critique of Modernity

Acknowledgments

ix I had the good fortune to be introduced to Camus by a political theorist. Zdravko Planinc gave me an eye for the odd or curious features of texts that we tend to smooth over in our search for more comforting types of coherence . And he encouraged a kind of scholarship that, though incapable of rivaling the beauty and wonder of its source text, would nudge the reader toward them in new and compelling ways. I owe thanks to Dana Hollander for her careful reading of the text and the tough questions she raised concerning its argument.Thanks to Ellis Sandoz for providing me with the opportunity to present portions of the work to the Eric Voegelin Society at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The critical discussions provoked by these meetings proved very helpful in refining and deepening my argument. I would like to thank Clair Willcox, editor in chief of the University of Missouri Press, for his support and encouragement of my work. My thanks also to Annette Wenda for her careful and thoughtful reading of the manuscript. A warm thank-you to family and friends who have been a part of the conversation out of which this work has grown—Susan Srigley, Jerry Day, Liz Srigley, Jeff Tessier, Paul Corey, Oona Eisenstadt, Bruce Ward. A special thanks to my mother, Joyce Srigley, whose vitality Camus himself would admire. A big thanks to the guys—William and Elliott—who began by listening to this conversation but now have joined it, each in his own way. From Eliot to images of Cape Bear, we keep stumbling upon ways to continue it. For me this is an unmixed pleasure. Acknowledgments Acknowledgments / x My best thanks go to my partner, Kate Tilleczek. No one knows better or cares more than she what is really at stake in these pages, and no one has exerted more influence upon them.Amidst the noisy clamor of the academy, how true your voice. Albert Camus’ Critique of Modernity ...