Dante and Derrida: Face to Face

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments Much of the research and the first stages of writing for this book were supported by a sabbatical grant from Georgetown University. I undertook an initial exploration of the present subject matter in an essay entitled, “Dante and Derrida: The Promise of Writing and the Piety of Broken Promises,” which appeared in Styles of Piety, eds. S. Clark Buckner and Matthew Statler (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006). This project as a whole would not have been possible without the insight and scholarship of John D. Caputo’s exceptional study The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion. I am grateful to all of my students at Georgetown who have over the years participated in my “Dante and the Christian Imagination,” and especially to Jessica A. McKinney and James F. Zumberge, who worked diligently and skillfully on preparing the manuscript. Finally, I owe a debt of gratitude that exceeds all resource to my family. From them I first learned to see the White Rose. ...