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Acknowledgments
I owe a great deal to many friends and colleagues. The person to whom I am most indebted is Michael Morgan. I began to study Levinas in Mike’s first seminar on Levinas at Indiana University. I had tried to read Levinas several years, but it was only under Mike’s guidance that I began to make progress in understanding him. For years, Mike and I met weekly to read and discuss him, and we continued to share our ideas via e-mail long after I was no longer a graduate student. Mike’s book, Discovering Levinas, exemplifies what I hope to achieve in my own writing, both in its clarity, its precision, and the way it ignores the supposed boundary between analytic and continental philosophy. Mike has been a constant source of guidance, both as a mentor and as a friend, and I want to thank him for his support and for contributing the Foreword to this book.
Portions of this book began as a dissertation project, and I was blessed with an extremely supportive yet critical dissertation committee. Paul Spade mentored me for several years while I was a graduate student, and I credit him with inspiring, in no small measure, my philosophic sensibility.