
Has brought his “eye of prey” to bear on these essays and in the process has saved me from any number of blunders.Īnd, of course, few things are possible in my world without home-front support, and for that I thank my wife, Marsha, who And the encyclopedic-minded annotator par excellence, Chris Ackerley

Sympathies, has been a stalwart ally for many years now. Anthony Uhlmann, who wrote its “Preface” and with whom I share philosophical and theoretical I am grateful as well that my longtime collaborators and coauthors Happily, myĬoeditors and I have found such nurturing at Bloomsbury. Such a fruitful and personalĮditorial relationship has, unfortunately, grown all too rare in our current climate of corporate publishing.

On Henri Bergson and on Gilles Deleuze, my general coeditors and I edited to launch the series. Years, for his help on and support of the book series that I coedit (with professors Paul Ardoin and Laci Mattison) for BloomsburyĬalled Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism, two volumes of which, those

In this case IĪm happy to thank Haaris Naqvi, editorial director at Bloomsbury Academic, not only for his guidance in shaping this currentīook, Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn, but, over the past several Publicly the support and advice one receives from family, colleagues, and editors is especially gratifying. Among the pleasures of publication the opportunity to acknowledge
