both in my own Department and at other Universities. I am
grateful for the many helpful comments that I had on these
occasions. More generally, I should like to record my gratitude
to the Department of Government at the University of
Manchester, of which I have been a member now for more
than a quarter of a century, and in which I have been able to
pursue the interests I wanted to pursue and to do the work I
wanted to do, in the company of good friends and colleagues.
For specific discussion of Rorty's ideas at various times during
the last two or three years, I thank Shane O'Neill, Mark
Harvey and Roy Bhaskar, each of whom generously, and also
enjoyably, helped me in the process of clarifying my own
ideas; without incurring any responsibility, naturally, for any-
thing I think and say.

The love and support I get from my wife and daughters,
Adèle, Sophie and Jenny, I have depended on and drawn
strength from yet once more. All of them know directly for
themselves the pains and the pleasures of writing -- though for
themselves, perhaps, more the pleasures of it, and in me, more
the pains. One of the pleasures, in any event, is to be just at
the point I am now, and it is thanks above all to the three of
them that I am.

Manchester, November 1994

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