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Acknowledgments

I WOULD LIKE TO thank all those who have accompanied the preparation and publication of this work. At Indiana University Press, I am first grateful to John Sallis, general editor of Studies in Continental Thought, for welcoming me in his prestigious series. I am also thankful to Dee Mortensen and Ashante Thomas for their crucial help during the production of this book as well as Jennifer Crane.

I am thankful to Edward Casey for his invitation to present an early version of the project in the Philosophy department at Stony Brook University. The encouragement that I received after my talk and the exchanges I had with the graduate students and other faculty were a great source of inspiration for the subsequent years of writing and have accompanied me throughout this work. I also would like to acknowledge David Kleinberg-Levin for the stimulating intellectual exchanges we have had over the years and Pierre Jacerme for his philosophical guidance and friendship. I am also very grateful to Anne O’Byrne for her thoughtful response to my lecture on the event at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) and for helping me clarify my thoughts and question my own assumptions.

At Louisiana State University, I would like to thank my colleagues in Philosophy, as well as Delbert Burkett, in Religious Studies, for his mentoring and friendship. My warm thanks go to Margaret Toups for her always diligent work.

In Costa Rica, my thanks go to the staff at the Maragato, Luis Daniel Venegas, Luis Sandi, Warren Montana, Doña Rosa, and I am thankful for the companionship of Charlie Johnson, John Copp, Roland Ridal, and Brian Mock.