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xv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Most of the ideas behind this book germinated in discussions I had as a graduate student at the University of Warwick, where I found a community made up of a diversity of thinkers with different perspectives and a shared aim of thinking life through philosophy in the broadest possible sense. I would like to thank the following in particular for constituting that community : Darren and Siobhan Ambrose, Gloria Ayob, Tom Barker, Steve Barrell , Joe Bossano, Chris Branson, Marjorie Gracieuse, Tom Greaves, Caleb Heldt, Michael Kolkman, Joe Kuzma, Rhuaridh Macleod, Becky Mahay, Brian Mcstay, Katrina Mitcheson, Scott Revers, Michael Vaughan, Tracy Veck, Lee Watkins, Rafael Winkler, and Pete Wolfendale. As well as students , this book is founded on the education I received at Warwick and owes much in particular to the teaching of Keith Ansell Pearson, Christine Battersby, Miguel Beistegui, David Miller, and Martin Warner. Above all, this work would not have been possible without the guidance of my supervisor , Stephen Houlgate, and I have tried to remain true throughout it to the ideals of engagement, scholarship, and Gelassenheit. This book also benefitted from advice given by those who read the manuscript in its various forms. I would particularly like to thank my examiners, Bob Stern and Miguel Beistegui; Len Lawlor, who read the manuscript for State University of New York Press; the anonymous second reader; and Dan Smith. Each of these people helped me to broaden the perspective of the problematic, to clarify the narration of the argument, and to correct errors in my readings of the philosophers whom I discuss. Any errors that remain I am fully responsible for. I would also like to thank Seb Gwyther for putting together all of the illustrations in this book, and Emma McNally for kindly granting permission for the use of Field 4 as the cover image. Special thanks go to Kat, who put up with me throughout my various attempts to think beyond common sense. Some sections of this book have been published previously. I am grateful for permission to use material from “Sartre and the Virtual,” in Philosophy Today, 50, no. 5 (2006): 126–32, which appears in chapter 1. xvi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Material in chapter 7 is reprinted with kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media, which was originally published as “Hegel and Deleuze on the Metaphysics of the Calculus,” in Continental Philosophy Review, 42, no. 4 (2010): 555–72, with further material, previously published as “Transcendental Illusion and Antinomy in Kant and Deleuze,” in Thinking between Deleuze and Kant, edited by Ed Willatt and Matt Lee (UK: Continuum, 2009): 128–50, reproduced by kind permission of Continuum International Publishing Group. ...

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