Acknowledgments

Portions of this book have appeared previously in Poetics Today and in Current Perspectives in Social Theory and are reprinted here with permission. I would like to thank Steve Best, Cynthia Bouton, Bob Calvert, Fredric Jameson, Martin Jay, Larry Hickman, Paula Kane, Doug Kellner, Rick Roderick, Michael Sprinker, and Larry Yarak for reading drafts of one or more chapters and Gregory Elliott and Ted Benton who commented on certain of my arguments as they appeared in article form. Needless to say, none of these individuals is responsible for the errors which remain. I would also like to thank my anonymous readers from the University of California Press for their helpful criticisms and to express my appreciation to my editors Erika Büky and Dan Gunter for their valiant effort to render my prose into acceptable English. I am deeply saddened that my dissertation director Gene Lunn did not live to see the appearance of this book. Carey, Dorian, and Paula greatly enriched my life during the ordeals that accompanied the production of this book, which is dedicated to my parents, Robert and Dorothy Resch.