Acknowledgements
Forty years is a long time in a life – a long time to read, to listen, to write. These essays span a series of hopes, dreams, disappointments; and we carry on. I cannot thank by name all those who helped make all this possible across such a long time. I thank all my teachers and mentors, and all my friends. We could shorthand this as thanks to Thesis Eleven, but that would not get it all either.
Sian Supski, Andrew Gilbert and Tim Andrews helped make the collection work. Peter Thomas had the kindness to suggest it. Danny Hayward and the HM cell turned it into a book. Alonso Casanueva Baptista performed magic with the Index. Hilde Kugel was a wonderful desk editor. Dor, Nikolai and Rhea, Sian and Savannah lived with me across all this. I am grateful to all, and hope that these results might be of some use-value to those who follow. For those who might be interested, some parallel paths are tracked in my Intimacy in Post-Modern Times – A Friendship with Zygmunt Bauman, Manchester University Press, 2020, in my introduction to Alastair Davidson – Gramsci in Australia, Brill, 2020, and in forthcoming memoirs on Castoriadis, and the first forty years in Thesis Eleven.
To my past readers, friends and colleagues, thank you. To my new readers, welcome.
Peter Beilharz
Sichuan University, PRC/Curtin University, WA