Acknowledgments

My students in courses offered in the Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College at Louisiana State University, as well as in the Department of French Studies and the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, have helped me refine my thinking here. I’d also like to acknowledge Grant McCall, Karl Widerquist, Brian Marks, Kent Mathewson, and Helen Regis for help with anthropology and geography questions. Talks delivered at the following association meetings also helped with the genesis of this book: American Political Science Association; American Association of Geographers; Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts; International Studies Association; Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; and Society for European Philosophy (UK). Similarly, invited talks at the following universities were instrumental in formulating this book: Stony Brook University; American University in Paris; Radboud University; Institute for Arts & Humanities at Penn State University; the CIEPFC seminar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure; Notre Dame University; Elmhurst College; Clemson University; Duquesne University; University of Memphis; University of Hawai’i at Manoa; and University of Dundee.