Birth, Death, and Femininity: Philosophies of Embodiment

Index

abjection, 39–40 abortion, 11, 19 Abraham and Isaac story, 27–28 absolutism, 12, 20 action, 10, 53, 121, 124, 131–32; collective , 32–33; narrativity and, 134–36; natality and, 131–32, 134–36, 196; newness and, 56–57; as second birth, 53, 195, 201; speech, 134–35, 147n32; temporality of, 133–34. See also activity activity: labor, 53, 132–33, 147nn35,36,37, 194; temporality and, 132–34; types of, 132–33, 147nn33,38; work, 53, 132–33, 147n37. See also action Adorno, Theodor, 35, 160 Aeschylus, 26, 216 Agamben, Giorgio, 51, 59–62, 67n18, 182n9 akineton, as term, 227 Albanese, Patricia, 66n8 ambiguity, 6–8, 12–15, 19–20, 73, 75–78, 138; in Antigone, 221–22, 228–31, 235, 239, 240–43; of death, 105, 122; of foreigner, 46n19; in Nietzsche’s work, 159, 182; of sacrificial victim, 35 ambivalence, 7, 12, 16, 20; sacrifice and, 40, 43 amor fati, 163, 192 amor mundi, 204 Anaximander, 212, 213 Anaximenes, 213 ancestors, 104 Andreas-Salomé, Lou, 188, 191, 205 animal laborans, 194 animal life vs. human life, 200–201 Anselm of canterbury, 36 anticipation: consciousness and, 130–31; of death, 91n20, 101, 107, 109, 114n23, 123–24, 130–31, 135, 145n13, 146n30; erotic relation and, 123–24 Antigone (Antigone), 104; death, yearning for, 218–19, 222–23, 224, 240–41, 245n19; eternal life in death, 224–30; gender identity, 221–22, 240–41; meaning of name, 241–42; mourning, prohibition against, 236–37; as other, 221; sameness, yearning for, 226–28 Antigone (Sophocles), 18, 213; ambiguity in, 221–22, 228–31, 235, 239, 240–43; critique of city-state in, 218, 228–29, 237–39, 242; Empedocles as commentary on, 231–33; gender identity in, 221–22, 237–38, 240–41; Hegel’s view, 211–12, 220–21, 228, 247n40; Heraclitus as commentary on, 233–36; problem of origins in, 220–23; sexual difference in, 237–42 anxiety, 6, 73, 74, 98, 111n2, 113n6 appearance, 11–12, 53, 84–87, 130 arche, as term, 225–26 Arendt, Hannah, 2, 49, 158, 247n44; action and speech, view of, 132–36; animal life vs. human life, 200–201; appearance and natality, 11–12; beingtowards -death, critique of, 89, 119, 130–31; birth, the body, and the maternal, 197–200; body/sexual difference , lack of focus on, 52, 120, 136, 161–62, 195; historical specificity and, 63; human compared with other life, 114n20; influences on, 192–94; Kristeva’s critique of, 191–92, 197, 200; life-affirmative attitude, 100; memory and natality, 128–32; memory of birth, concept of, 130–31, 146n31; narrativity, view of, 134–36; natality, philosophy of, 9, 11–12, 18, 51, 52–57, 66n8, 112n10, 128–32; Nietzsche compared with, 162–63, 192–95; plurality, concept of, 9, 12–14, 186–87, 196; Works: The Human inDEx 256 index Condition, 11, 52, 66n8, 119, 130, 194, 200, 205; The Life of the Mind, 11–12, 194, 201; Love and Saint Augustine, 53, 66n8, 146nn29,30; The Origins of Totalitarianism, 10, 57, 65 Aristotle, 91n9, 104, 201, 244n13, 247n44; Works: Physics, 145n19; Politics, 112n11 Askin, Kelly Dawn, 66n6 asymmetry: of death and birth, 107–108, 113n19; between sexes, 119, 176, 187 Athens, 171; autochthonic myth of origins , 214, 219, 223, 243; city-state ideology of, 214–15; collective forgetting, 217–18, 220; funeral oration for citizens , 214, 217–18, 219, 238–39, 240; incestuous family, parallels with, 218– 20, 238–40; non-Athenians in, 246n36; political equality, 214; prohibition on recalling misfortune, 217– 18, 245n18 Attica, 214, 219 Augustine, Saint, 9, 54, 65, 66n13, 129–31, 192 Auschwitz, 50 autochthonic myth: Athens, 214, 219, 223, 243; incestuous family, parallels with, 220, 222–23, 246n27 autoeroticism, 190 bare life, 60, 182n9 Bataille, Georges, 35 Baubo (Demeter myth), 159–60, 173 Bauman, Zygmunt, 2, 18 Beauvoir, Simone de: aging, discourse on, 144n9; ambiguity, view of, 7–8; beingtowards -death, critique of, 89, 100, 136; doubleness of women, 28; intersubjectivity, view of, 136–40; Kierkegaard, view of, 77–78; on Sartre’s death, 113n15; separateness, concept of, 138–40; women associated with death, 5–6, 28, 73–75, 100–101, 119, 140–43; Works: All Men Are Mortals, 3, 83–84, 91n19; The Ethics of Ambiguity, 3, 77, 136–39; Pyrrhus et Cinéas, 77, 91n13, 136; She Came to Stay, 91n13, 139; A Very Easy Death, 112n14. See also The Second Sex becoming, 1, 55, 175; continuous, 186; destruction as part of, 26–27, 44n1; love vs. hate, cycle...