HEARTFELT THANKS to David Bertet (Université de Montréal) who prepared the bibliography and helped translate two essays, to Gabriel Malenfant (University of Iceland) and William Colish (Université de Montréal, CRÉUM) for their scrupulous editing; finally, to Tyson Gofton (University of Toronto) and Philippe Farah (Université de Montréal) for their bibliographical research. Special thanks to Babette Babich and Debra B. Bergoffen for permission to reprint a version of Claire Elise Katz’s essay, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Thus Listened the Rabbis: Philosophy, Education, and the Cycle of Enlightenment,” which first appeared in New Nietzsche Studies, Special Issue on Nietzsche and the Jews, coedited by David B. Allison, Babette Babich, and Debra B. Bergoffen, vol. 7, no. 3/4 (Fall 2007). Thanks also to Héloïse Bailly (Université de Strasbourg II, Marc Bloch and Université de Montréal) and Oona Eisenstadt (Pomona College) for their comments on several essays, and to Andréanne Sabourin-Laflamme (Université de Montréal) for her research into vitalism and mechanism. Without the criticism and insight of Gérard Bensussan (Université de Strasbourg II, Marc Bloch) and François-David Sebbah (Université de Compiègne), this collection would not have been possible. Special thanks are owed to Brian Schroeder, who helped formulate the project that led to this collection and helped in so many ways during the process of working on it. Thanks also go to the Hurford Humanities Center at Haverford College, and to all the philosophers at John Jay College, CUNY. The generous financial support of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada helped to make the material realization of this project possible, as did the CUNY Research Foundation.