“Passim” (literally “scattered”) indicates intermittent discussion of a topic over a cluster of pages.
Adorno, Theodor, 95; Negative Dialectics, 97
advertising, 18, 32
animality, human, 31, 36, 37, 62, 64, 82–89 passim, 97–98
animals, 19, 88; abuse of, 74, 88; taming of, 84
Arab Spring, x
aristocracy, 12, 17
arrogance, 42, 64, 65, 84
authenticity, 21, 84
authoritarianism, 34, 45, 58, 67
Baudelaire, Charles, 46
“beast within.” See animality, human
being versus having, 17, 69, 76, 78, 83, 89
Benjamin, Walter, 91
birthrate, 72
Blake, William, 40; “Proverbs of Hell,” 97
Blanchard, Maurice, 35
body, 64, 86, 87, 88. See also mind and body
bourgeoisie, 12–20 passim, 24
Capital (Marx), 95, 97
Castellio, Sebastian, 70
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 41, 45
censorship, 20, 46
Chamfort, Nicolas, 74
children and childhood, 25, 29, 40, 72–73, 74
Christianity, 59
civil disobedience, 70, 71
class, 14, 17, 34. See also bourgeoisie; working class
class consciousness, x, 17, 93
colonization and colonialism, 16, 24
comedy, 88
competition, 62
consciousness, 33, 55, 56, 58, 61, 64, 70, 87
consumption and consumerism, 16–20 passim, 28, 55, 59, 65
contempt, 20, 39, 46, 58, 74, 80, 84
cracks in society, 96, 97
creation, 55, 70. See also self-creation
creativity, 61, 73
curiosity, 25, 29
currency, alternative, 79–80
Da Vinci, Leonardo. See Leonardo da Vinci
death, 75, 76, 82, 84, 86. See also killing
death penalty, 59, 79
death wish, 68
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 12
degradation: of commons and services, 51; of humans, 75
denaturation, 39, 51, 54, 62, 67, 82, 86
desire and desires, 56, 61, 62, 73, 83–88 passim; artificial, 18, 55; ethics and, 64; for learning and knowledge, 25, 29–30
dictators and dictatorship, 9, 10, 49
dogma, 26, 59, 82
elitism, 29
environment, 53, 92
ethics and morality, 18, 19, 50, 64, 65; pretentions of, 53
evolution, human. See human evolution
fatalism and resignation, 23, 69, 75
financial speculation, 22–23, 31, 59
France, May 1968 events in, 20, 22, 58
free choice, illusion of, 18, 55
freedom of speech, 38–39, 79. See also censorship
free trade, xi, 12
French Revolution, 10–11, 12
generosity, 78–79, 80; of nature, 83
Gouges, Olympe de, 12
happiness, 4, 9, 50, 61, 62, 64, 80, 85; consumerism and, 18, 19; poetry and, 89; sacrifice/thwarting of, 40, 46; self-constructed, 7; solidarity and, 60, 62
hatred, 46, 47, 50, 51, 68, 85, 92. See also self-hate
having versus being. See being versus having
hedonism, 18, 23, 32, 68, 78
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 35
Holloway, John: “It Is January,” 91–98
human animality. See animality, human
human body. See body
human consciousness. See consciousness
human evolution, 36, 47, 73, 89
ideology, 25, 31, 37–40 passim, 43, 46, 59, 63
ignorance, 26, 29, 43, 46, 93
intellectuals and intellectualism, 35–37, 40–45 passim, 67–68, 74
intolerance. See tolerance and intolerance
Islam, 59
Janus, 91–92
joy, 30, 78, 83–84, 87; ebb and flow, 82
joylessness, 28, 46, 75
killing, 50, 70, 88, 89. See also death penalty
La Boétie, Étienne de, 51
labor. See work
Lautréamont, comte de, 35
Lenin, Vladimir, 95; What Is to Be Done?, 94
Leonardo da Vinci, 2
love, 44, 50, 73, 83, 85, 94. See also self-love
majority rule, 79
manual labor, 25, 45
Marx, Karl: Capital, 95, 97
Marxists and Marxism, 26–27
media, 23, 33, 55
medicine, 86, 87
mediocrity, 18, 29, 34
melancholy, 82
middle class. See bourgeoisie
“militantism” and militancy, 60, 95
military and militarism, 49, 58, 86
mind and body, 36, 39–45 passim, 64, 95
money, 22, 27–29 passim, 33, 49, 63, 69, 78–80 passim
morality. See ethics and morality
nationalism, 32, 43, 49
nature, 53, 54, 62, 68, 81, 83; ebbs and flows in, 82–83. See also denaturation
Nazism, 45, 49, 58
needs, false, 18, 55
Negative Dialectics (Adorno), 97
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 61
nihilism, 27, 31
obedience, 84. See also civil disobedience
obscurantism, 29, 44, 46, 72
orders, 62, 84
Other, 31, 47
pacifism, 47
patriarchy, 58, 67
Phlipon, Manon (Madame Roland), 12
pleasure and pleasures, 45, 64, 69, 73, 75; of creation, 55; of learning and teaching, 27, 30. See also hedonism
plebian and proletarian distinction, x, 33, 97–98
poetry, revolutionary. See revolutionary poetry
police, 58
populism, x, 29, 32, 33, 38, 41
predation and predatory instinct, 37, 62, 77
prison, 59, 65
production and products, x, 14, 16, 18, 20–21, 28, 51; boycotts, 65. See also consumption and consumerism
proletarians. See working class
“Proverbs of Hell” (Blake), 97
punishment, 38, 59. See also death penalty
quantity and quality, 62, 76, 79, 84
Reich, Wilhelm, 43
religion, 44, 46, 59, 63, 81, 85
resentment and ressentiment, 43–48 passim, 68
resignation and fatalism. See fatalism and resignation revolution and revolutions, 69, 95. See also French Revolution
revolutionary poetry, 96–97, 98
Revolution of Everyday Life (Vaneigem), 94, 96, 97
Rien n’est sacré, tout peut se dire (Vaneigem), 38
Roland, Madame. See Phlipon, Manon (Madame Roland)
scapegoating, 50–51
self-annihilation. See suicide
self-creation, 7
self-denial and self-sacrifice, 46, 60, 66
self-hate, 48
self-love, 44, 85
sexism, 74, 92
suicide, 22, 49, 50, 75, 92
supply and demand, 80
survival and survival instinct, 11, 28–31 passim, 44–48 passim, 52, 61–64 passim, 75–80 passim, 86, 87; class exploitation and, 24; “survival sickness,” 4
tolerance and intolerance, 38–39
tragedy, 88
Vaneigem, Raoul: Revolution of Everyday Life, 94, 96, 97; Rien n’est sacré, tout peut se dire, 38
voting, 79
warfare, 47, 50
What Is to Be Done? (Lenin), 94
Wiechert, Ernest, 49
women, 19, 36, 38–39; contempt/scorn for, 20, 59, 72, 74
work, 18–19, 25, 45, 62, 74; glorification of, 59; as obligation, 73
working class, 14–15, 17, 33; colonized peoples as, 24. See also plebian and proletarian distinction
Zapatistas, 93