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ix Acknowledgments Research for this book has been supported by several institutions, all of which I am honored to acknowledge here: the American Academy in Berlin, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities in Bogliasco, Italy, and the Babson Faculty Research Fund. I am especially grateful for the support of Babson College ’s former dean of faculty, Fritz Fleischmann, and Colby College’s former dean of faculty, Edward Yeterian. Parts of chapter 1 first appeared as “Inheriting, Earning, and Owning : The Source of Practical Identity in Hegel’s ‘Anthropology’” in The Owl of Minerva 34, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2003). The core of chapter 2 was first published as “History and Patriotism in Hegel’s Rechtsphilosophie ” in History of Political Thought 28, no. 3 (Autumn 2007). My thanks to the editors of both publications for their permission to reprint these articles here. I am grateful for the invaluable input of colleagues and teachers at various stages of my research, including particularly Frederick Beiser, Klaus Brinkmann, Daniel Dahlstrom, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Christoph Menke, Allen Speight, and Peter Stillman. Thank you to Northwestern University Press’s anonymous readers for their meticulous and insightful suggestions. My particular thanks to Will Dudley for reading the entire manuscript and for being a stimulating interlocutor for all (but not only) things Hegelian. Thanks especially to Bernard Prusak for his tireless attention to many drafts of my work and for more than a decade of philosophical conversation and generous friendship. For moral support and inspiration, my thanks go to Amy Haigh, Mary Pinard, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Annelies Clauson, and GNO. I am also grateful for the love and support of my parents and of my five brilliant, dynamic, and far-flung siblings. Hannah Moland was this book’s muse. Rakel Louise Erickson was my paternal grandfather’s first cousin. In her rich life of ninety-three years, spent mostly in rural Minnesota, she never abandoned the Norwegian language and culture into which she had been born. Her American patriotism led her to volunteer for x A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S VISTA rather than pay taxes during the Vietnam War. She was our family ’s genealogist long before genealogy was fashionable. In her nineties, she authored two books of Norwegian folktales for children; she also continued to read Kierkegaard in Danish. She and I shared, as a middle name, her mother’s name; and Rakel, through sharing memories of her mother with me, showed me that I had inherited a home in the world of thought, then helped me earn and own that home. By far my deepest gratitude goes to my husband, James Johnson: a brilliant scholar, a source of inspiration and steadfast support, a passionate and adventurous companion who fills my every moment with joy. How lucky I am. ...

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