Devorah Baum (still engaged by the ethical imperative), Kaupo Kand and Antonio Gomez all in some way helped contribute to what I wanted to say here, as did Birna Birnadottir, who in addition once translated some of my work on Nietzsche into Icelandic in a manner I knew was entirely trustworthy. Dr Andrew Pyle at Bristol looked over my work on Kant and Dr P. Poellner supervised my PhD at Warwick; I am grateful to both of them and to my PhD examiners: Dr S. Gardner and Professor K. Ansell-Pearson. Certain of the discerning queries each of them raised no doubt remain unanswered here. I should also like to acknowledge the support of Beth Perry, Louis Gasparro, Tetsuya Taguchi, Gwyn Topham, David Fern and Angela Baum and to say a heartfelt diolch to Adrian Wyn Williams, Dr Henry Morriss, Craig Holden, Ifans Mawr, Gemma Louise, Stephen Cheeke and of course Tad a Mam.
I would also like to acknowledge that limited and programmatic parts of my first chapter on Nietzsche were recently published, in translation, in the Icelandic journal of philosophy, Hugur: Tímarit Um Heimspeki (1998–99) under the title: ‘Tilraun um styrk: Trúin í túlkunarsálarfrædi Nietzsches’, pp. 50–65 (‘An Experiment in Strength: An Outline of Nietzsche’s Religious Metapsychology’, in Mind: A Journal of Philosophy (1998–99) pp. 50–65). Thanks are due to the editors for letting me reprint it, in a modified form, here.