HENT DE VRIES AND LAWRENCE E. SULLIVANkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and its Dean of Research and
Graduate Education, Professor Eaton E. Lattman, and of the University of Notre Dame.
Our grateful thanks go to Jeff Fort, Eduardo Mendieta, and Fr. Joseph T. Lienhard,
S.J., for vetting translations of the essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, Ju ̈rgen Habermas, and Pope
Benedict XVI, respectively. Thanks, too, to Neil Hertz, who has allowed us to use his
remarkable photographs of Baltimore on our display pages.
Without the indefatigable energy, sustained support, and editorial skills of Helen
Tartar, Editorial Director of Fordham University Press, the publication of this volume
could not have succeeded. We are immensely grateful for her wise counsel and persistent
effort in bringing this project to a good end.
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