Acknowledgements
An enormous beholden thank you to Étienne Balibar who accompanied me throughout this project with patient adherence and extraordinary pedagogical generosity. Thank you to Jillian Carson and David Carson for their grounding constancy and to everyone at the CRMEP who together formed a uniquely cultivating intellectual community. A special thanks to Christopher J. Arthur, Dave Beech, Riccardo Bellofiore, Maria Chehonadskih, Alex Fletcher, Peter Hallward, Peter Osborne, Flo Ray, Eric-John Russell and Massimiliano Tomba who read drafts, and provided imperative feedback.
This book could not have been possible without the unwavering fervent support of Thomas Jungnitz Watson, to whom it is dedicated with abounding gratitude and love.
Earlier versions of chapters, now much changed, have appeared in Continental Thought & Theory: A Journal for Intellectual Freedom (2017), Consecutio Rerum (2018), The Politics of the Many: Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency (2022) and Critical Theory Today: On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition (2022).