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Acknowledgments Many people have contributed to the completion of this project. My thinking about this topic began with my dissertation on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right at Vanderbilt University. I would like to thank my advisors for that project, John Sallis, John Lachs, David Wood, Gregg Horowitz, Idit DobbsWeinstein , and Victor Anderson. Further thanks goes to John Lachs who offered suggestions on early drafts of my outline of the present project and who provided moral support and inspiration as I continued to work on it. I would also like to thank Scott Zeman who criticized the chapters on Marx; Robert Metcalf who critiqued the chapters on Fichte; Jere Surber who offered me insight into Fichte’s philosophy of language and the metacritique of Kant; and Sarah Cunningham who critiqued an early version of what became the chapters on Kant. Finally, I would like to thank my family for their support and patience as I completed this project: Julaine, Gordon, Don, Peggy, Bodhi, Tahoe, and Valerie. vii ...

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