To everyone involved: a heartfelt thank you.Above all, this means people who read the manuscript in whole or in part, and who pointed me in new directions and/or saved me from disasters (although they are innocent of any disasters that remain): Jay Bernstein, Ivan Chvatík, George Cotkin, Robert Fraser, Peter Moore, Nigel Warburton, Jonathan Webber, Martin Woessner and Robert Zaretsky. I’m grateful not only for the reading, but for the many enjoyable and thought-provoking conversations along the way.Thank you also to others who helped in crucial ways through friendly conversation, good advice, or both: Peter Atterton, Antony Beevor, Robert Bernasconi, Costica Bradatan, Artemis Cooper, Anthony Gottlieb, Ronald Hayman, Jim Holt, James Miller, Sarah Richmond, Adam Sharr and Marci Shore.Of all these, I’m particularly grateful to Robert Bernasconi and Jay Bernstein for having inspired me to study philosophy in the first place. I was incredibly lucky, back in the 1980s, to happen across the adventurous cross-disciplinary programme they helped to create at the University of Essex.Very warm thanks go to Marianne Merleau-Ponty, who generously shared with me her memories of her father.I wrote part of this book during a stay as Writer in Residence at the New York Institute of Humanities at NYU, and I am grateful to the institute and to Eric Banks and Stephanie Steiker for their hospitality and friendship during a wonderful, productive two months.Much of the rest of the writing was done in the British Library, London Library, Bodleian Library and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris; thank you to all those institutions and their staff.
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