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Abraham (biblical figure),
98,
119“Absolute de-territorialization,”
109,
115“Ages of the World” (Schelling),
58Alliance (
Verbindung),
31Also Sprach Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 414
Arbitrariness (
Willkür),
105Aristotle,
24,
60–64,
100,
130,
147,
187n10; general equivalent and,
74; metaphysics and,
95; Nietzsche and,
52;
politeia and,
6,
13–14,
16,
92Ausbildung (education),
105
Authoritarianism,
82,
117
Being and Time (Heidegger),
34,
58
Benjamin, Walter,
17,
54,
131,
141–42,
158; Agamben and,
108; aura and,
82; Derrida and,
19–20,
56,
58,
137;
Gewalt and,
18,
115; language and,
63–66; Marxism and,
143The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche),
46
The Blue Rider (
Der Blaue Reiter) (Kandinsky),
49,
51,
178n19
Bohemian bourgeoisie,
8,
162The Book of Questions (Jabès),
37
Borderline concept (
Grenzbegriff),
107Die Brücke (The Bridge),
51
Christian Augustinian Romanism,
163Christianity,
84,
119,
131,
136,
146,
163–66; Agamben and,
79,
81; European consciousness and,
39; monotheism and,
113–16; moral-Christian metaphysics,
xii; Nietzsche and,
72,
80; statism,
165; transvaluation and,
86,
99Christian liberal state pacificism,
154Christology, Pauline,
116Church militants (
ecclesia militans),
170Collective conscience,
161Comparative advantage,
81The Concept of the Political (Schmitt),
106–7
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Kandinsky),
47
Condorcet, Marquis de,
80Constitutional jurisprudence,
108Constitutive force,
56–60Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de,
26“Counterfeit Money” (Derrida),
97–102The Creation of the World or Globalization (Nancy),
109
Crisis of representation,
3–6; force of law and,
16–20; genealogy of Nietzsche and,
10–13; genealogy of political and,
13–16; sovereignty and subjectivity,
6–9Critique of Practical Reason (Nietzsche),
11
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant),
107
“Critique of Violence” (Benjamin),
17–20Cultural identitarian politics,
xThe Culture of Narcissism (Lasch),
8
The Dark Side of Modernity (Mignolo),
125
Deconstruction,
16–20,
25,
32,
93,
107,
173n2; as broken circuit,
36; as force,
21–22; Hegelian genesis of,
33–36; question of the question and,
37“Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice” (Derrida),
16Deleuze, Gilles,
ix,
xiii,
9,
12,
23,
35,
70,
86; “absolute de-territorialization” and,
109,
115; art and,
43–44;
chaosmos and,
91; donation of sense and,
23; Nietzsche and,
52Democracy in America (Tocqueville),
83
Derrida, Jacques,
ix,
xii–xiii,
14–15,
54,
64,
99–100,
119,
130–31,
175n27; Benjamin and,
19–20,
56,
58,
137; deconstruction and,
16–20,
93,
173n2; force of language and,
29; genealogy and,
17,
21; gift economy and,
93–95,
97–98; Hegel and,
24,
29–33,
93;
khora and,
40,
45,
58,
107; Kierkegaard and,
38–39; Kojève and,
22; Levinas and,
37,
38; logocentrism and,
28,
30; Malabou and,
22–24; neoliberalism and,
120; political economy and,
39; pure immanence and,
70; question of questioning and,
33,
36,
41;
revenant and,
34–35Descartes, René,
7,
16,
91Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR),
144Dialectical materialism,
77,
87,
143“Doctrine of the Similar” (Benjamin),
63–64Dühring, Karl Eugen,
84–85Dynamic archaeo-cosmic indeterminacy,
58
Ecclesia militans (church militants),
170
Economy,
69–72,
150; counterfeit money and,
98–102; debt,
93–98; genealogy of political economy and,
72–75; general equivalent and,
75–77; gift,
93–98,
101–2; hyper-reality and,
86–93; political,
xi,
39,
72–75,
95; of resentment,
xiv,
79,
82–86; symbolic,
xiii,
75,
94,
162; two paradigms of,
77–82; virtual,
131–34Education (
Ausbildung),
105Effective force, genealogy of,
60–62Effective history (
wirkliche Historie),
12Emergence (
Entstehung),
61Endlessness (
Ewigkeit),
xvThe End of History and the Last Man (Fukayama),
80
Enlightenment,
7–8,
123,
125,
155; counteruniversality and,
118; French Revolution and,
105; Islamism and,
114; universal commonwealth and,
103; universalism,
59,
112; voluntaristic politics and,
113Ethnic identitarian politics,
xEudaimonia (happiness),
61–62
Europe,
x,
51,
129,
144; antisemitism in,
84; Christianity and,
39; Islamism in,
114; nationalism in,
111–12; Nazism in,
34; revolution in,
159Ewigkeit (endlessness),
xv
Faith of the Faithless (Rousseau),
132
Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard),
38
“The Flies of the Marketplace” (Nietzsche),
41“Force and Signification” (Derrida),
24“Force of Law: The ‘Mystical Foundation of Authority’” (Derrida),
16–18,
34Foucault, Michel,
xi,
14,
56,
76,
79,
158,
162; crisis of representation and,
3; discourse analysis of,
4; genealogy and,
12,
60; soft power and,
154The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic (Malabou),
22–23
Geisteswissenschaften,
10
Genealogy: Derrida and,
17,
21; of effective force,
60–62; gift economy and,
93; mythology and,
57; Nietzsche and,
xi–xiii,
10–13,
52–53,
60–61,
71–72,
76; of political,
13–16,
78; of political economy,
72–75Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche),
83–84
The German Ideology (Marx and Engels),
161
Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork),
46,
55,
63
The Gift of Death (Derrida),
38
Globalist neoliberalism,
22Globalized Islam (Roy),
113
Glorious Revolution (1689),
100God,
xiii,
xiv,
56,
58,
115,
129–31; City of God,
164,
167–70; death of,
xiv,
32,
79,
138; decolonialism and,
134–38; questioning of,
37; virtual economies and,
131–34; zeal of,
117–21God of the gaps hypothesis,
117Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
26,
28Grassroots collectivist movements,
156Grenzbegriff (borderline concept),
107
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Nietzsche),
11
Haase, Marie-Luise,
176n4Happiness (
eudaimonia),
61–62Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
xiii,
27–28,
44,
116,
137,
164,
166; abstract right and,
130; cunning of reason and,
104; deconstruction and,
33–36; Derrida and,
24,
29–33,
93; force and,
25; Kojève and,
21–22; Marx and,
69–70; Nietzsche and,
41–42; Schelling and,
47; semiology of,
29–33Heidegger, Martin,
7,
14,
36,
45,
58,
109; Nazism and,
54–55; Nietzsche and,
78; Schelling and,
56; Spirit and,
34–35Heidegger et le Nazisme (Farías),
54
Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology (Schelling),
57
Historical materialism,
xi,
92Homo Sacer (Agamben),
80,
107
“Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View” (Kant),
104Imagined Communities (Anderson),
110
Indigenous communitarianism,
135Individualism, possessive,
5,
8,
158International Monetary Fund,
156Interpersonal relationality,
39Interplay (
Wechselspiel),
xiiiIsaac (biblical figure),
98
The Jewish Question as a Question of Racial Character and Its Harmfulness for National Existence, Morals, and Culture (Dühring),
84
Die Judenfrage als Frage des Racencharakters und seine Schädlichkeiten für Völkerexistenz, Sitte, und Kultur (Dühring),
84
Kant, Immanuel,
3,
11–12,
17,
39,
70,
82,
107,
132; art and,
43; gift economy and,
94–95; imagination and,
32–33; judgment and,
19,
23; Kandinsky and,
48; larval mayhem and,
104; universal commonwealth and,
103;
Verbindung and,
31; will and,
105Keynes, John Maynard,
163The Kingdom and the Glory (Agamben),
77,
80
Knowledge: local,
125,
136; power and,
76
Labor theory of value,
158Language,
57–58,
63–66,
92,
125; covenantal,
36; force of,
29,
33; origins of,
140; propositional,
36; subjects of enunciation and,
135; written,
31–32,
64Law: force of,
16–20; natural law theory,
4; Roman,
108Law-founding (
rechtsetzende),
137,
142Law-preserving (
rechterhaltende),
137,
142Lebenskraft (life force),
45
Liberal democracy,
ix–xii,
3–6,
65,
96,
102,
120,
129; economicism and,
78; economy of resentment and,
82,
85; faith statements and,
131; force of law and,
16–20; genealogy of Nietzsche and,
10–13; genealogy of political and,
13–16; legitimation crisis and,
130,
134; secular,
168; sovereignty and subjectivity,
6–9Life force (
Lebenskraft),
45Limited Inc. (Derrida),
173n2
Le Livre des questions (Jabès),
37
Logos,
29,
35,
37,
61,
71,
95,
140–42;
eris and,
58,
180n9;
mimesis and,
63–64;
politeia and,
62; totalitarianisms of,
57
Machiavelli, Niccolò,
131Marx, Karl,
xi–xii,
64,
66,
74,
77,
88–89,
99,
104,
161; abstract right and,
130; capitalism and,
162–63; expropriation and,
8; fetishism and,
92; Hegel and,
69–70; Lefort and,
150; Locke and,
158; structural crisis and,
96; universal symbolic product and,
76Marxism,
xi,
79,
96,
130,
142,
145,
155,
160; Baudrillard and,
87,
89; Benjamin and,
143; class consciousness of,
150; collapse of,
6,
92; dialectical materialism of,
77,
87,
143; Hegel and,
22; neo-Marxism,
59,
109Memory, as representation,
43Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,
54Metapolitics (Badiou),
156,
170
Monotheistic imperative,
117Moral-Christian metaphysics,
xiiMoses (biblical figure),
119Les Mots et les choses (Foucault),
4
Myth, constitutive force and,
56–60
National Socialism,
7,
51,
81Neuhaus, Richard John,
144Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle),
61
Nietzsche, Friedrich,
xv,
7,
121,
141,
157; Christianity and,
72,
80; crisis of representation and,
8–9; death of God and,
xiv,
32,
79,
138; Derrida and,
16; expressionism and,
51–53; genealogy and,
xi–xiii,
10–13,
52–53,
60–61,
71–72,
76; Hegel and,
41–42; inner event and,
176n4; metaphysics and,
70; political theology and,
xii; poststructuralism and,
14;
ressentiment and,
x,
80,
83–85,
182n4; Sloterdijk and,
83; transvaluation and,
50; truthfulness and,
21; will to power and,
12,
16,
35,
42–45,
78Nietzsche and Philosophy (Deleuze),
44,
86
9/11 terrorist attacks,
113
Of Spirit (Derrida),
33,
37
On the Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche),
10
“On the Mimetic Faculty” (Benjamin),
65On the Name (Derrida),
40
On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life (Nietzsche),
11
Ontological difference,
57Ontological grounding,
xiiThe Order of Things (Foucault),
4
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt),
129
Overman (
Übermensch),
10,
46,
51
Parliamentary politics,
140“The Permanence of the Theologico-Political?” (Lefort),
145“The Pit and the Pyramid, Introduction to Hegel’s Semiology” (Hegel),
29,
31Politeia,
17–18,
61,
71,
132,
141,
161,
165; Aristotle and,
6,
13–14,
16,
92; general equivalent and,
130;
logos and,
62;
mimesis and,
63; monotheism and,
123
Political Theology (Schmitt),
106
Politics (Aristotle),
61,
63
Politics and political,
x,
54–56,
139–40; in age of total war,
140–43; civil society and,
143–48; empty space of democracy and,
148–51; genealogy of effective force and,
60–62;
mimesis and,
62–66; myth and constitutive force and,
56–60; parliamentary,
140; radical,
115–17; suspicion of,
151–52; voluntaristic,
113;
see also Identity politicsPossessive individualism,
5,
8,
158Power,
153; disciplinary,
162; knowledge and,
76; soft,
154; will to power,
12,
16,
35,
42–45,
72,
78Propositional language,
36Protestant Reformation,
126
La question du livre (the question of the book),
37
Question of the question,
33,
36–40
Radical Democracy and Political Theology (Robbins),
xiv
Rechterhaltende (law-preserving),
137,
142
Rechtsetzende (law-founding),
137,
142
Relations of production,
xiiiRepresentations (
Vorstellungen),
71Return of the religious,
xiiRevolution,
141,
153–55; City of God and,
167–70; danger of State and,
155–59; French Revolution,
80,
83,
105,
123,
132; Glorious Revolution,
100; of saints,
159–63; sexual,
79; task of political theology and,
163–67Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
150
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
54,
56Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph,
56,
59Schmitt, Carl,
ix,
xii–xiii,
34,
106–7,
138,
153,
166,
171n4; Agamben and,
108; Arendt and,
139–40; friend/ enemy distinction and,
135,
137,
139; Mignolo and,
135–36; National Socialism and,
7; sovereignty and,
6,
78,
82Schmitt-Rottluff, Karl,
51Secret of responsibility,
38“Secrets of European Responsibility” (Derrida),
38–39September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,
113Sovereign debt crisis,
96Sovereignty,
xiv,
81–83,
107,
116,
119,
131,
166; as agency,
100; corporealization of,
146; Schmitt and,
6,
78,
82; subjectivity and,
6–9Space of the between (
Zwischenraum),
140–41,
148Specters of Marx (Derrida),
ix
Spirit (
Geist),
23,
25,
28–29,
33,
36,
38,
42; abstract art and,
46; creative force of,
35; as force,
35; free,
9; Heidegger and,
34–35State of Exception (Agamben),
80
The Stillborn God (Lilla),
81
Subjects of enunciation,
135Symbolic Exchange and Death (Baudrillard),
86
System der Weltalter (
System of the Ages of the World) (Schelling),
57
Theology and Social Theory (Milbank),
163–64
The Theory of the Moral Sentiments (Smith),
151
“Theses on Feuerbach” (Marx),
66“Theses on the Philosophy of History” (Benjamin),
66Thought,
21–22; deconstruction and,
33–36; Hegelian semiology and,
29–33; image of,
ix; negative and,
28–29; physics of,
26–28; plasticity and,
22–26; question of the question and,
36–40Tocqueville, Alexis de,
83Topics, Physics, and Metaphysics (Aristotle),
61
Total artwork (
Gesamtkunstwerk),
46,
55,
63Transcendental unity of apperception,
31Two Treatises on Civil Government (Locke),
158
Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Kandinsky),
47
Übermensch (overman),
10,
46,
51
Unbearable lightness of being,
43Universal commonwealth,
103Universal obsessional neurosis,
91Universal symbolic product,
76Untimely Meditations (Nietzsche),
10
Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen (Nietzsche),
10
Verbindung (alliance),
31
Voluntaristic politics,
113Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben (Nietzsche),
11
von Humboldt, Wilhelm,
31Vorstellungen (representations),
71
Was ist Politik? (Arendt),
139
Weapons of mass destruction,
142Wechselspiel (interplay),
xiii
Weltalter (Schelling),
58–59
What Is Politics? (Arendt),
139
Willkür (arbitrariness),
105
The Will to Power (Nietzsche),
43,
45–46
Wirkliche Historie (effective history),
12
Yeats, William Butler,
110
Zur Genealogie der Moral (Nietzsche),
10
“Zur Kritik der Gewalt” (Benjamin),
17–20Zwischenraum (space of the between),
140–41,
148