Acknowledgements
In the researching and writing of this book it has been my pleasure to meet and work with a number of people, without whom these pages would have scarcely seen the light of day. First among them, I would like to thank John Grumley for his tireless commitment, guidance and advice throughout my years as a graduate student at the University of Sydney. John Rundell has been a generous and dutiful editor and I thank him for the enthusiasm that he has shown towards my work. I would also like to extend a special note of gratitude to the editorial staff at Thesis Eleven. The encouragement and assistance that I have received from Melbourne has been nothing short of extraordinary. In particular, I thank Peter Beilharz for his confidence in the work, his many perceptive assessments of it, and his efforts to help me share my thoughts on the critical theory of the Budapest School with the scholarly public. David Roberts has been an important source of critical insight and I would like to thank him for his diligent reading of the earlier forms this work. Needless to say, such flaws that exist within the discussions which follow remain my own.
This work began life as a Ph.D. thesis. Without the financial support of the Commonwealth Government of Australia it would not have been possible.
To my family; to my mother and father, Deborah and Gary Dorahy, would that everyone be so fortunate to have such remarkable people by their side. To Jadranka, to William and Maxim, ‘you are my everything, my head and my heart, my mind, my wing …’ This work is for you.