Preface

I incurred many debts in the writing and delivery of the 2011 Hamlyn Lectures and in preparing them for publication. My greatest debts are to my audiences in Oxford, Coventry, and London, who listened patiently and responded with helpful and insightful questions. I am particularly grateful to Kim Economides for the initial invitation, Avrom Sherr for making many of the arrangements, and Finola O’Sullivan for being a patient editor at Cambridge University Press for such a dilatory author.

Timothy Endicott organized and chaired the first lecture at Oxford; Julio Faundez did the same at the University of Warwick for the second lecture, and Sir Stephen Sedley chaired the third lecture in London. New York University’s D’Agostino Fund for Faculty Research helped support the rewriting of the lectures in Summer 2011. Carol Sanger helped me inestimably throughout the process, as always, with her support, insight, and love.