Acknowledgments

I am indebted to the philosophy faculty and students at the University of Essex, England, to the participants of the Collegium Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, in 1987, 1988, 1989, and to the faculty and graduate students at Vanderbilt University for discussion and criticism of parts of this book. I am especially grateful to David Farrell Krell, Susan M. Schoenbohm, Charles Shepherdson, Susanna Thiele, and Andrew Young for their exceptionally helpful suggestions, research aid, and conversations. Holley Roberts provided valuable editorial assistance and prepared the index. Judy Thompson and Stella Thompson typed the manuscript in its several versions with patience and kindness that went considerably beyond the staff support that one might reasonably expect.

I acknowledge with gratitude permission to use all or portions of the following publications:

“The Middle Voice of Metaphysics,” The Review of Metaphysics 42 (1989). Reprinted by permission of The Review of Metaphysics.

“Heidegger and the Question of Ethics,” Research in Phenomenology 17 (1988). Reprinted by permission of Research in Phenomenology.

The Language of Difference, chapter 2, section 4 (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1987). Reprinted by permission of Humanities Press International, Inc.

“The Horizon of Time and Ontological Difference in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology,” Hermeneutic Phenomenology: Lectures and Essays, ed. Joseph J. Kockelmans (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1988).