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vii Special institutional thanks are due to the Department of Philosophy and The Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College, The City University of New York. For the last few years while drafting this book, I have also benefited greatly from some extra time and space provided by the following institutions : Faculty Research Fellowship, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY Wertheim Study, The New York Public Library PSC-CUNY Research Award (PSCOOC-39-142), Research Foundation of CUNY Visiting Professorship, Wuhan University Countless personal thanks are also due, but more personally. A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s ...

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