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ix Acknowledgments Many people have helped this project to move along from idea to reality . My gratitude begins with Rosa Slegers, Morny Joy, John King, and the others who heard an initial exploration of these ideas at the 2006 meeting of the International Society for Philosophy and Literature; and with Marilyn Frye, who encouraged the project in an early stage. Since then, my thinking has benefited from the input of the enthusiastic students at the 2008 Goucher College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference; Phyllis Rooney, Nancy Tuana, and others in the audience at the 2009 Feminist Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Methodology of Science conference at the University of South Carolina; those who attended a paper drawn from this work at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; and Jorella Andrews and her colleagues and graduate students who attended my 2009 guest lecture for the Program in Visual Culture at Oliver Goldsmith College, University of London. I also thank several cohorts of philosophy majors at Hamline University who heard and commented on various stages of this project, as well as my colleagues in the Department of Philosophy there: Lisa Bergin, Duane Cady, Samuel Imbo, and Stephen Kellert. Hamline University facilitated my research on this project with a sabbatical leave in the spring term of 2010. In addition, I am grateful for the helpful comments of two anonymous readers for SUNY Press and for the support and encouragement of my editor, Andrew Kenyon, and his predecessor, Jane Bunker. Finally, I have to acknowledge two people without whom this work literally would not have been possible: my husband, Jeffrey Koon, who patiently read and commented on every chapter (the Heidegger chapter twice), and of course, J. K. Rowling, who created Harry Potter and his world. ...

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