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Several people have helped me significantly in writing this book, but the lions share of thanks is owed, not for the first time, to Alex Neill and David Owen, both of whom were characteristically generous and penetrating in their comments on earlier drafts of everything that appears here. For equally valuable assistance of a more episodic kind I am indebted to Chris Janaway and to two anonymous readers for Routledge: each of them pointed out some real shortcomings, and made helpful suggestions for improvement. And for what one might term environmental support, I am, as ever, grateful to the proprietors and staff of the Avenue Bar, Padwell Road, where this book was largely written. At Routledge, I would like to thank Tony Bruce Priyanka Pathak and Jean Rollinson, whose efforts in seeing the project to completion were as whole-hearted and as smoothly orchestrated as one could wish.

Versions of parts of this book have previously appeared elsewhere. Sections (2005); and parts of the Appendix derive from the same source, as well as from an entry, Wagner, contributed to M. Kelly, ed., The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). My thanks to those concerned for allowing me to make use of the relevant material here.

Aaron Ridley
Southampton, 2006