Levinas and the Philosophy of Religion

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Accusation, 98–101 Accusative, 86 Adequation: intuition and intention, 65, 90, 177, 209n4; intuition of death, 121– 122 À-dieu, 187–188, 191, 195 Affectedness: of Dasein and fear for the other, 126–127; and disclosure, 112– 116; as ground, 88; passivity of responsibility, 93–94, 96; phenomenological function in Being and Time, 112, 116; of subject, 87; translates Befindlichkeit, 112 Affectivity: Dasein’s fundamental, 118; and double intentionality, 115–116; theological, 212n8 Agamben, Giorgio, 114 Anonymity, xxiii, 192, 193, 194, 195 Anxiety, 116–119 Apodicticity, 209n4; of responsibility, 89– 90. See also Certainty Apology, 100 Apophansis, 50–52, 54, 55 Appearing: of appearance, 62–64; confined, 65; of the I, see Summons; in Levinas, 84; made by the I, 67–70; and phenomenology, 56–57; and reduction , 55, 65; unconditional, 66, 100– 101. See also Phenomenality; Phenomenon Asceticism, 95, 135. See also Dispossession; Renunciation Assignation. See Summons Asymmetry, 30 Atheism, 26–27, 143, 186–187, 188, 203n4, 219n9 Augustine, Saint, 112, 114, 212n8 Authenticity, 91–92, 127–128 Autrui, 4, 17–21, 33–42, 43, 181. See also Being(s); Other; Otherness Bataille, Georges, 202n23 Being: amphibology with beings, 49–52; of animals, 200n15, 205n21; beyond, 34– 35; comprehension of, 4, 10–11, 15– 16, 17; of Dasein, 109–110; in Heidegger, 45; in Totality and Infinity, 44–45. See also Beings(s); Existential analytic; Ontology, fundamental; Question of Being Being(s) [l’étant]: as Autrui, 32–33, 43, 200n15; in existence, 13–14; and expression, 19, 22; neutralized, 4, 15– 16; otherness of, 6, 15–16; par excellence, 132–133; in question of being, 12–13; in question Who?, 18– 19. See also Being; Existential analytic; Ontology, fundamental; Question of Being Being and Time: as phenomenological, 104, 107, 211n4. See also Existential analytic; Ontology, fundamental Belatedness: of Dasein, 115; of responsible self, 97–98, 186 Bernasconi, Robert, 199n1, 202n25 Bible, 36, 126, 169–170 Bloom, Harold, xv Bonaventure, Saint, 27 Buber, Martin, 53–54, 168, 169, 205n22 Call, 150, 153 Caputo, John D., xvi, xviii, 195, 219n13, 219n14 Cause, 132–133, 176, 190 Certainty: of death, 121–122. See also Apodicticity Chalier, Catherine, 164 Chrétien, Jean-Louis, 215n3, 218n29, 219n11 Christianity, 142, 143, 144, 164, 171, 210n9, 212n8 Citation, 167–168 Cogitatio: as appearing, 66–70 Cogito: as appearing, 68, 69; breakup of, 176, 179; insufficiency of, 175, 177– 178, 179; priority of, 73. See also Consciousness; Ego; Gaze; I Cohen, Richard, 157–158, 159, 164, 198n16 Conditions for the possibility: of appearance , 56, 70; of experience, 62–63, 100–101. See also Unconditionality Consciousness: as a priori, 72–73; more than, 83–84; stage of appearing, 69, index INDEX 228 71. See also Cogito; Phenomenology; Temporality Context: neutralization of otherness, 15–16; signification without, 17 Correlation in phenomenology, 64–66, 73– 74, 177 Courtine, Jean-François, 122, 211n13 Creation, 28, 149–152, 162, 186 Critchley, Simon, 101–102 Cubism, 75, 208n16 Dasein, chapter 6 passim; determination of, 10; groundlessness of, 115; phenomenological priority, 108–109; reflexivity, 119, 122; and responsible self, xxiii, 109, 123–124, 124–125. See also Existence; Existential analytic; Ontology, fundamental Dative, 23 Death: ethical meaning, 128, 213n18; my own, 120–123; of other, 120, 126–128; and substitution, 125 Death of God: Christian sense of, 142–144; God beyond, 192; and the Good, 191; in Hegel, 136–137, 139, 141; horizon, xiv, xvii, xxi; in Kant, 138–139; metaphysical necessity, 132–135; in Nietzsche, 146–147; and philosophy of religion, xxiii, 145–146, 173–174. See also God Debt, 121 DeNys, Martin, 142, 214n25 De-position: of the I, 99, 109 Derrida, chapter 2 passim; on citation, 168– 169; ethics, xviii; on Husserl, 208n24; and phenomenology, 61; on religion, 161, 162–164; religion in, xvi; and theology, 204n10; and Totality and Infinity, 25, 29–33 Descartes, René: God, 218n2; idea of infinity, 176–179; method, 65–66; theological inheritance, 27 Desire: vs. intentionality, 180–181; in mystical theology, 218n5 Difference, 7. See also Ontological difference Dionysius, 27, 206n2 Disclosure, 17, 19, 112–115 Disenchantment, 214n19 Dispossession, 24, 91–92, 95, 125. See also Asceticism; Renunciation Distance, 7, 200n9 Donation, 24. See also Generosity; Gift; Givenness Dostoevsky, xvii Doubt (Cartesian), 65–66, 69 Eckhart, Meister, 33–35 Ego: absent from phenomenology, 80–81; in Levinas, 85–86; non-constituted, 93; non-intentional, 86, 95; splitting of (Ichspalttung), 80, 86. See also Cogito; Gaze; I Election, 152–153, 162 Enlightenment, 138, 142, 143 Epektesis, 219n5 Equipment, 13–14 Erlebnis (lived experience), 66–70 Eschatology...