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Academy of the French Republic, 19
Advertising, art and, 84–86
Against Heresies (St. Irenaeus), 20
American exceptionalism, xxxii
American imperialism, 33, 81
Anarchical Fallacies (Bentham), xxiv
Anarcho-syndicalism, xxxvi
Archeology, of the present, 78–80
Art, lxiii, 39–40; advertising and, 84–86; body and, 93–94; contemporary, 43, 76, 79–86, 90–92; criticism, 80; essence of, 149n4; history and, 76; as propaganda, 98; religion and, 78; revolutionary power of, 79–80; transmission of codes in, 89–92; truth and, 76–77; values and, 86
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 149n2
Beauvoir, Simone de, xvii
Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 14–15
BEPC exam (Brevet d’Études de Premier Cycle), xlvi, 143n7
Body, 82, 89; angelic model of, 97–98; art and, 93–94; of artist, 16; brain, 17, 42–44, 45, 56, 110–12; cadavers, 84; ethics and, 42–43; eugenics, 105–6; expansion of, 100–2; Faustian, 109–14; gastronomy, 25; heuristic of audacity, 99–100; homeostasis of, 102; “I” and, 14; identity and, 111–12; as machine, 101–2; mutilation of, 98; Nietzsche and, 14; organs of, 98, 102, 111; philosophy and, 13–17; post-Christian, 101–2; reason and, 93; self and, 12–13, 98; soul and, 97–98; truth and, 83; unexplained potentialities of, 101; Western, 97–98
Bourdieu, Pierre, 77, 121
Brevet d’Études de Premier Cycle, see BEPC exam
Charter for Healthcare Workers, 99
Christianity, xxix, 7, 30–31, 93; de-Christianizing, 32–34; decline of, 33; existentialism and, 19; hedonism and, xxxv; Judeo, 29–32, 55, 57; morality and, xxii, 47–48, 51, 61
Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), 136
The Closing of the American Mind (Bloom), xxii, 142n10
Condorcet, Marquis de, 152n2
Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de, 147n1
Critique of Dialectical Reason (Sartre), 120
Critique of Practical Reason (Kant), 39
Discourse on Method (Baillet), 13, 134
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men (Diderot), 16
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (La Boétie), 125
Diversity, unity and, 124
Earth, atheism and, xxxii
École Secondaire Agricole et Technique, see ESAT
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (Marx), 151n1
The End of History (Fukuyama), 150n1
Epicurus, xxxii, xxxv, 113; Garden of, xxxiv, 9, 18–19, 20, 138; pigs and, 9, 145n11; suffering of, 17; understanding of soul, xxiv
Erotic microsocieties, 71
Erotics, Judeo-Christian, 57
ESAT—École Secondaire Agricole et Technique (The Secondary School of Agriculture and Technology): architecture of, xlii; canoe trips at, lvii–lviii; chores at, xlvi; colored card system at, liv, lvi; crosscountry racing at, xlviii; discipline at, lv–lvi, lviii; dormitories of, l–lii; educational goals of, xliv; educational structure of, xlvi–xlvii; education counselor at, lviii; English class at, liv–lv; enjoyment at, lv; Father Brillon, l, lii–liii; Father Moal, lx, lxii; food at, lv–lvi; football club, xlvii; foundational experience at, xlv; French teacher at, lviii–lviv; hazing at, xlviii; journeys out of, lxi–lxii; layout of, xlii–xliv; mail at, li; math teacher at, lix; music teacher at, lvii–lviii; numbering of children at, xlv–xlvi; Olympic Games of Easter Sunday, xlviii–xlix; outdoor activities at, xlix; physical education at, xlvii–xlix; prayer at, lix–lx; prefect of discipline at, lviii; priests at, xlix–l, liii–lvii, lx; punishments at, lii–lvi, lviii; ranking of students, xlvii; reading at, li, lx; rules and regulations at, xlvi; schoolwork at, lviii–lviv; science at, lx; shop teacher at, lvi–lvii, lxiii; showers at, xlix–l; singing school of, xlvii; sports at, xlvii–xlix; structure of power at, xlvi; Sundays at, lxi–lxii; surrounding countryside of, xliii; survival mechanisms at, lxiii; television at, l, lv; trips home, lxi–lxii; violence at, lii, lxi; writing at, li
Ethics, xii, xxvii; arrangements and, 47; atheism and, 26; Auschwitz and, 48; the bastard, 146n1; bioethics, xxxvii, 32, 97, 108; body and, 42–43; brain and, 44; identity and, 41–42; mental health and, 46–47; New Atheists and, xxix; nominalist, xxiv; pleasure and, 51; politics and, 138–39; practice of, 49; religion and, xxxvi; sadomasochism and, 71, 148n1; of sage, 36; self and, 48; standards of, xvii; suffering and, xxv; wisdom and, 48
Ethics of Ambiguity (Beauvoir), xvii
Existentialism, Christianity and, 19
February Revolution, 151n1
For Sainte-Beuve (Cabanis), 146n6
Freedom, individual and, xviii
French Declaration of the Rights of Man, xxiv
Freudian psychologists, 16
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais), 153n5
The Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche), xxviii
“Gifford Lectures” (Whitehead), 6
The Gift of Death (Derrida), 17
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 152n10
God, 58; beauty and, 78; dangerousness of, 35; death of, xxi, 31, 78, 93; individual and, 71; morality and, 37; Theology and, 38
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hitchens), xxx–xxxi
Greatest-Happiness Principle, xxvii
Hedonism: benefits of, xiii; Christianity and, xxxv; definition of, xx, 47; fascism and, 25; foundation of, 110; pleasure and, 25; rehabilitation of term, xxxv; system of, 24–26
Heuristic, of audacity, 99–100
The History of Sexuality (Foucault), 148n1
“How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” 24
Indian gymnosophists, 5, 144n6
Introduction to the Devout Life (de Sales), xliv
Jankélévitch, Vladimir, 147n3
Jaurès, Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon, 150n3
Koenigstein, François Claudius, 152n7
La Boétie, Étienne de, 125
Lectures on the History of Philosophy (Hegel), 87
Liberal imperialistic logic, 117–20
The Libertarian Order: The Philosophical Life of Albert Camus (Onfray), xix
Libertine feminism, 71–72
Lives, Doctrines, and Sayings of the Eminent Philosophers (Laërtius), 8
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 150n2
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, xv–xvi
The Metaphysics of Morals (Kant), 31
Monsieur Homais (fictional character), 101, 150n2
Morality, 131; of Bible, 35; brain and, 43; Christianity and, xxii, 47–48, 51, 61; God and, 37; happiness and, xxviii; idealism and, xxviii; love and, 48; measuring units of, 49; pleasure and, 51; politeness and, 50–52; prayer and, 48; theology and, 37–38; tolerance and, xxii–xxiii
The Moral Landscape (Harris), xxix
Natural human good, xxiii
Negativity, nihilism and, 81–83
A New Amorous Order (Fourier), 70
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), xxvi
Nietzsche (Lefebvre), 129
Nietzsche, Friedrich, v, xxviii, 43, 78; body and, 14; death of, xxi; influence of, xxi; language of, xxi–xxii; Leftist Nietzscheism, 127–30; logic of, 129; National Socialism and, xxi; vision of, 16
Nietzsche and Philosophy (Deleuze), 129
Nihilism, xxii; Atheism and, xxxiii, 29; Camus and, xix; civilization and, 30; emblems of, 84; negativity of, 81–83; overcoming, 33; poverty and, 123
9/11 (September 11th, 2001), 118–19
Occupy Wall Street (OWS), xxxiv
“Offences Against One’s Self,” xxvii
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway), li
On Nature (Empedocles), 144n2
On Nature (Parmenides), 144n4
Ontics, philosophy and, xxvi
Ontology, physiology and, 14
Pain, pleasure and, 50–51
The Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel), 146n4
Philosopher in Meditation, 145n2
The Philosophers’ Stomach (Onfray), 25
Philosophy, lxiii; analytic, xxv–xxvi; Anglophone, xxv–xxix; antiphilosophy, 34; biology and, 57; body and, 13–17; counterhistory of, 8–11; European birth of, 4–5; Marxist-Leninist histories of, 5; ontics and, xxvi; Pre-Socratics and, 4; science and, xxvi–xxvii; self and, 17; stories in, 13; theology and, 20, 113; understanding, 16–17
Physiology, ontology and, 14
Plato, xxiii, 7, 11, 142n10, 144n1, 145n10; Allegory of the Cave, 6; Democritus and, 8–9, 22; Diogenes and, 88–89; elitism of, 18–19; enemies of, 8–10; on Man, 90; metaphysics of, 149n4; pedagogy of, 18; as philosopher, 21–22; place and, 19
Platonic participation, 77
Pleasure, 47; avoidance of, 26; definition of, 56, 145n9; ethics and, 51; fear of, 26; feminine, 59; hedonism and, 25; morality and, 51; pain and, 50–51; sexuality and, 62
Post-Christian Atheism, 34–36
Poverty: inconvenient vs. tidy, 120–23; labor and, 122; Liberal imperialistic logic, 117–20; nihilism and, 123; suffering and, 122
Practice, theory and, 20, 22
Present, archeology of, 78–80
The Prodigious and Heroic Life of Don Bosco (comic strip), xliv
Rabelais, François, 153n5
Real, rematerialization of, 92–94
Reflections on Violence (Sorel), 135
Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone (Kant), 31
Rematerialization, of real, 92–94
Republic of Venice, 149n2
De Rerum Natura (Lucretius), xxxv
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 146n6
Scientific inquiry, 145n3
The Search for a First Truth (Lequier), 16
The Secondary School of Agriculture and Technology, see ESAT
“The Second Dance-Song,” v
A Sentimental Education (Flaubert), 151n1
September 11th, 2001, see 9/11
Sexuality, 9, 61; bestial, 56; brutality and, 55; conjugal, 60; death and, 62; heterosexuality, 55; homosexuality, xxxvii, 137; love and, 62; pleasure and, 62; sacred, xxxvii; of women, 59
Situationist International, 149n1
The Sofa: A Moral Tale (Crébillon), 147n1
“The Song of la Palice” (La chanson de la Palisse), 147n2
Splenetic libertarian spirit, 126–27
Sterility, metaphysics of, 64–66
Stories, in philosophy, 13
The Subjection of Women (Mill), xxvii, 138
Summa Theologica (St. Irenaeus), 20
The Swerve (Greenblatt), xxxv
Theory, practice and, 20, 22
Theory of the Amorous Body, 25–26
Thoreau, Henry David, 136
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche), v, 128
Transmission of codes, 89–92
The Twilight of an Idol: The Freudian Fantasy (Onfray), xii
Université Populaire de Caen, xii
Utilitarianism (Mill), 23
Values, 29; art and, 86; Bloom on, xxiii; Christian, 35; individual and, xvii; Post-Christian Atheist, 35; source of, xviii
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft), xxvii
Weight of the World (Bourdieu), 121
Whitehead, Alfred North, 6, 145n7
The Will to Power (Nietzsche), 78
Wollstonecraft, Mary, xxvii
The Working Condition (Weil), 120
Zero growth theory, 151n2