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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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When you’ve been grappling with the intellectual challenges and historical development of the Frankfurt School for over half a century—the dissertation that became The Dialectical Imagination was begun in 1967—you incur a virtual lifetime of debts to the people and institutions that kept you going. Luckily, I have had the opportunity in previous books to acknowledge my gratitude to the legions of friends, family members, supporters, critics and fellow devotees of Critical Theory who made those works possible. Let me now focus only on those whose generosity and stimulation provoked the essays collected here to come into being.

First, I would like to thank those whose invitations to conferences, talks or essay collections induced me to focus on the specific issues in individual essays or who helped publish the first iterations of the results: Sidonia Blättler, Jonathan Boyarin, Judit Bokser, Briankle Chang, Moritz Epple, Johannes Fried, Richard Gipps, Shai Ginzburg, Peter Gordon, Raphael Gross, Janis Gudian, Espen Hammer, Gerd Hurm, Andreas Huyssen, Mathias Jehn, Max Pensky, Anke Reitz, Jeffrey Rubinoff, Bernd Schwibs, Jay Winter and Shamoon Zamir. As I have so often had a chance in the past, I would like to express my special thanks to Robert Boyers, the indefatigable editor of Salmagundi, where two of the entries first appeared as my biannual Force Fields column.

In ways both direct and indirect, I have also benefited enormously from my ongoing contact with members of the burgeoning international community of scholars engaged with the legacy of Critical Theory. Despite the inevitability of my failing to include many who deserve mention, let me single out John Abromeit, Andrew Arato, Richard Bernstein, Paul Breines, Susan Buck-Morss, Seyla Benhabib, Detlev Claussen, Jean Cohen, Deborah Cook, Maeve Cooke, the late Helmut Dubiel, Andrew Feenberg, Fabian Freyenhagen, Lydia Goehr, Espen Hammer, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Axel Honneth, Robert Hullot-Kentor, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Anton Kaes, Robert Kaufman, Douglas Kellner, Stefan Müller-Doohm, Henry Pickford, the late Moishe Postone, Anson Rabinbach, Gerhard Richter, Michael Rosen, Alfons Söllner, the late Albrecht Wellmer, Joel Whitebook, Rolf Wiggershaus, Richard Wolin, Robert Zwarg and Lambert Zuidervaart. Their fingerprints are all over the essays that follow. Let me also thank my more proximate colleagues at Berkeley, especially in the History Department and the Program in Critical Theory, who have sustained me both while I was actively teaching and now as I fade into retirement: Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, John Efron, Carla Hesse, David Hollinger, Thomas Laqueur, Anthony Long, Jonathan Sheehan, Hans Sluga and the late Paul Thomas.

I also very much appreciate the generosity of the Berkeley History Department’s Sidney Hellman Ehrman Chair, which provided me the resources to support my research, and the American Academy in Berlin, where the earliest of these essays was composed. Sebastian Budgen and Cian McCourt of Verso have provided excellent editorial and contractual guidance, and the final results have benefited from the copyediting of Jennifer Harris and the indexing skills of Lois Rosson. Finally, let me try to acknowledge what always exceeds my ability to express: the gratitude I feel for the love and sustenance of my family, my daughters Shana and Rebecca, their husbands Ned and Grayson, my sister, Beth, and my grandchildren, Frances, Sammy, Ryeland and the most recent arrival, Sidney. But as always, it is to my wisest reader, most constructive critic and loving wife, Catherine Gallagher, that my debt is boundless.