T HE IDEA FOR this work developed slowly over the past decade and more. It began out of my undergraduate lecture courses in the Philosophy of Religion at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and I would like to begin by thanking all the students who attended those lectures and who challenged and prodded me along the way.
As with any work of this nature, the contents of these pages have been distilled from many conversations and discussions with many colleagues. It would be impossible to trace all these influences, but I would like to specially acknowledge Richard Kearney, Markus Wrner, William Desmond, Donn Welton, Klaus Held, Ricca Edmondson, Lszl Tengelyi, Merold Westphal, Bruce Ellis Benson, and Len Lawlor.
In recent years I have had the opportunity to discuss these themes with graduate students and have benefited greatly from these discussions. In this respect I would like to acknowledge in particular Daniel Bradley, Aengus Daly, Erin Flynn, Miles Kennedy, Pat O'Connor, Davy Walsh, Veronica O'Neill, Roisin Lally-Bradley, Pearce Johnson, Pierre-Yves Fioraso, Sabine Mller, and David Beirne.
For their friendship and encouragement over many years, and specifically their comments and observations concerning the present project, I am indebted to Marty Fairbairn, Anthony Jenkins, and Maricarmen Jenkins.
I have presented some of the ideas which form the basis of this book at various fora, and would like to thank the audiences at these discussions in particular in the philosophy departments at SUNY at Stonybrook, KU Leuven (Belgium), Bergische Universitt Wuppertal (Germany), St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon (Canada), University College Dublin, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Mater Dei Institute, Dublin and NUI, Galway (Ireland), and the participants at the annual conferences of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the Society for European Philosophy, the Nordic Society of Phenomenology, the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, and the British Society for Phenomenology.
I would like to thank my editor at Indiana University Press, Dee Mortensen, for all her help, and the referees appointed by the Press for their constructive and insightful comments.
Much of the research for this book was conducted using the Western Theological Trust Collection at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) Library. I gratefully acknowledge both the Western Theological Institute, which owns the collection, and the GMIT Library, which curates it.
For their patience during my long absenceseven at times when I was physically in their presenceas I worked on this project, I am as always grateful to my wife Anne and my son Felix Alexander, without whose help and encouragement this book could not have been written.
FELIX MURCHADHA is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is author of The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger and editor of Violence, Victims, Justifications.
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