The Origins of Responsibility

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments I would like to thank those individuals who have been instrumental in the completion and publication of this work. At Indiana University Press, I am first thankful to John Sallis, general editor of Studies in Continental Thought, for welcoming me in his prestigious series. I am grateful as well to Dee Mortensen and Laura MacLeod for their professionalism and kindness during the production of the book, and to David L. Dusenbury for his expert reading of the manuscript. At Louisiana State University, I would like to first thank the LSU board of regents for granting me the Regents Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (ATLAS), which allowed me to take a year-long sabbatical and write a first draft of the book. I also would like to thank my colleagues , in particular Gregory Schufreider, for the many and always intellectually exciting discussions we have had over the years, to Jon Cogburn for reading several chapters critically, to Mary Sirridge, Husain Sarkar, Ed Henderson, Jeffrey Roland, and in religious studies, to Delbert Burkett and Stuart Irvine, for their scholarly companionship. My warm thanks also go to the staff, Jen O’Connor and Margaret Toups, for their cheerful and always helpful presence. I am thankful to James Ryan and Andrea Conque Johnson for their help in reading passages from the book and for their insightful comments , and to Michèle and Costa, in whose beautiful house on the island of Kea in Greece I drafted the first outline of the work. My thanks also go to Charlie Johnson and David Murray, for their friendship, and to Luis Daniel Venegas from the Maragato, for his hospitality. ...