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Acknowledgments I am grateful to the Estate of Josef Herman and the Flowers Gallery of London and New York for kind permission to use an image of Herman’s “Figure on Road,” a painting the allegorical sense of which seems singularly fitting for the cover of this book. Many are the friends who, in one way or another, in the course of a number of years, have contributed to the thinking and writing of this book. But, hoping that my increasingly weak powers of memory have not made me forget the contributions of a friend, I would like to name at least those to whom I consider myself most indebted. I would like to recall, with my thanks, Giorgio Agamben, Jay Bernstein, Daniel Brandes, Gerald Bruns, Edward Casey, Mauro Carbone, Peter Fenves, Doris Gahler, Jürgen Habermas, Samir Haddad, Gregg Horowitz, Glen Mazis, Eduardo Mendieta, Guiseppina Moneta, Dennis Schmidt, Davide Stimilli, Carlos Thiebaut, Bernard Waldenfels, and Samuel Weber. I am immensely grateful to Charles Curtis, Thomas McCarthy, Michael McGillen, and David C. Wood; their comments and suggestions on various parts and stages of this work have been helpful beyond measure. And finally, I wish to acknowledge and thank Peter Fritzsche and Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei for suggestions regarding the penultimate draft of the work in its entirety. Of course, I alone am responsible for the words that have been published here. xi ...

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