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Acknowledgments
The earliest parts of this book grew out of my participation in a seminar on Kant
and the Haskalah given by Christoph Schulte at the Moses Mendelssohn Center
in Potsdam. At the University of Pennsylvania, Lilianne Weissberg guided the
project as it developed. Her intellectual energy is an inspiration.
I wrote and rewrote this book while at Miami University (Ohio). I am deeply
thankful for the rigorous level of intellectual conversation that my colleagues in
Miami’s Department of French and Italian maintain and for their kindness, col-
legiality and good humor, and their enduring support of my work—even when,
as in this book, it took me far afield of French studies. As this project developed
over many years, Jim Creech, Elisabeth Hodges, Anna Klosowska, Sante Mat-
teo, Mark McKinney, and Jonathan Strauss engaged generously and probingly
with it in the department’s vigorous works-in-progress series. Jim and Jonathan
also read portions of the manuscript and helped me tighten my thinking and my
prose.
Colleagues in Miami’s German studies works-in-progress group also read
and discussed portions of the developing manuscript; I thank in particular Mila
Ganeva, Ole Gram, Eric Jensen, and Pepper Stettler. Steve DeLue saw value in
my work at a crucial time. This project has benefited from the advice and sup-
port of many other colleagues and friends in the wider Cincinnati community,
in particular Susan Einbinder, Adi Gordon, Eran Kaplan, and Michael Meyer.
Miami University granted me a semester of research leave in spring 2009
that greatly facilitated the research and writing of this book. I am grateful to the
Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig and its director, Dan Diner, for granting
me a fellowship in summer 2011 , which gave me the resources and time to draft
chapters 2 and 3. Colleagues there—in particular, Nicolas Berg, Jörg Deventer,
Lutz Fiedler, Elisabeth Gallas, Natasha Gordinsky, Omar Kamil, and Susanne
Zepp—were wonderfully welcoming, and their wide-ranging interests and ded-
ication to research energizing. My office mate Yael Almog set a standard to emu-
late for Sitzfleisch, even as our occasional coffee breaks provided a welcome dis-
traction from things Hegelian.
I am indebted to several people and institutions for inviting me to present
work related to this book: Dan Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville;
Julie Klein, Villanova University; Mark Raider, University of Cincinnati; David
