Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics

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203 index Absolute, 3, 5, 6, 15, 50–67, 91, 105, 174, 179; absolute dependence, 15, 16; ‘‘absolute near side’’ (Nishitani), 179; Nothing, 37– 49; as absolutely self-contradictory selfidentity , 37–38; as moving absolute, 105; non-substantial absolute, 179 Adorno, Theodor, 191 Affect, Affection, 72–92, 98, 104; affective answer, 103; affective response, 84–85; 89, 98–99; affective tonality, 78; affective understanding and sensible understanding, 85; affectivity and mysticism of Augustine, 184; auto-affection, 78; original Affection, 101; making world or earth appear, 86. See also Feeling; Heidegger, Befindlichkeit Aise (comfort), 91 Aisthèsis, 72, 91, 98 Alquié, Ferdinand, 72 Ambitio saeculi, 28 Ambrose, Saint, 178, 181 Analogia entis, 55 Anselm of Canterbury, 129, 155 Anthropomorphism, 17, 57 Anxiety, 22, 42–43, 72, 73, 76, 83, 87 Aphairesis, 184 Aphanology, 54 Apophansis, 12, 35, 41, 54, 101, 102, 175. See also Theology, negative; via negativa Aporia, 11, 161–162 Appearance, Appearing, 68–93; co-appearing, 78, 79; ‘‘malappearing,’’ 70; non-appearing, 69–70; over-appearing (surapparaître, Überfluss), 88–89, 90 Arianism, 128 Aristotle, 24, 29, 105, 186, 187 Art, 8, 22, 69–72; as disclosure, 72; and perception , 71–72; and phenomenological reduction, 72; as presence that imposes itself, 83–84; and truth, 74–77, 81–83, 90; work of, as appearing, 68–93; work of, as phenomenological object par excellence, 90; work of, as phenomenon-for-affect, 89; work of, irreducible to aesthetic object, 75 Articuli fidei, 155 Askesis, 103 Attention, 78; as power of appearing, 78 Augustine, 2, 6, 8, 12, 26, 27–29, 125, 155, 156, 167–168, 175, 176, 177–188, 194, 196; anti-Pelagian writings of, 182; on beata vita, 27–28; City of God, 194; Confessions, 177–186, 187, 194; on concupiscentia carnis and concupiscentia oculorum, 28; De Trinitate, 182, 183; as Greek thinker (Heidegger ), 29; Heidegger’s interpretation of Confessions, X, 27–29; as influenced by/in relation to Neo-Platonism, 177–190; readings of libri Platonicorum, 180; and veritas redarguens, 2 Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 161, 168, 179 Barth, Karl, ix, 161, 186; Unverfügbarkeit, 186 Being, viii, 4–5, 6, 7, 10, 24, 25, 31–49, 50– 67, 68–93, 106–118, 112, 116; anonymous, 61; and appearing, 68–93; being-as-ground, 115; being-before-God, 91; being-in-theworld , 7, 8, 78; being-on-the-way, 113; being-toward-God, 7; goodness of, 114–115; and having, 36; and/as Nothing, 6, 31–49; middle of, as no-thing and as religious, 114– 116; and Sacred, 51–67; transcendence of, 51–57, 112–116 Benamozegh, Rabbi Elijah, 135–152; on ‘‘Hebraic cosmopolitanism,’’ 147; Israel and Humanity, 141, 149 Benedict, Saint, 157 Bergson, Henri, 151 Bernard of Clairvaux, 179 Blanchot, Maurice, 120, 124; Writing of the Disaster, 120 Blondel, Maurice, 63–64; Action, 63 Index 204 Blumenberg, Hans, 150 Boeve, Lieven, x Boff, Leonardo, 165, 168 Borg, Marcus, 160 Bréton, Stanislas, 13 Brito, Emilio, 7–8, 9 Buber, Martin, 135 Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama), 195 Buddhism, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 44, 174–198; Indian, 48; Mâdhyamika, 174–175, 197– 198; Mahayana, 194; Zen, 46 Buddhist-Christian dialogue, 35 Bultmann, Rudolf, 158, 161, 189 Calvin, John, 193 Calvinists, 157 Captivation (ravissement), 78–80, 84. See also Enjoyment; Obsession Caputo, John, 10 Carroll, Lewis, 123 Catullus, 190 Causa prima, 33, 39 Causa sui, 3–4, 33, 41, 45, 46, 57, 58 Celan, Paul, 177 Charity, 110–111 (charité), 179–180, 185 (caritas) Christ, Jesus, 59, 103, 126, 127, 142, 144, 155–156, 158–159, 160, 161–163, 166, 189–190, 191, 193, 195, 196 Christianity, 28–29, 35, 58–59, 61–63, 94, 103, 104, 110, 112, 118, 142, 146, 153–170, 174–198; authentic = pre-Greek (Heidegger ), 28; and evangelization, 138; historical, 131; Kingdom and Trinity as principal motifs of, 153–170; and missionary fervor, 141 Cohen, Richard, 11 Community, 60, 62–64, 67, 135–152 passim, 153–173; and cult or church, 62, 67, 94– 95, 153–173 passim. See also Kingdom Conatus essendi, 111 Daitō Kokushi, 42 Dante Alighieri, 179 Dasein, viii, 1, 5, 6, 25, 61, 72, 79, 106; as ‘‘being-the-there’’ (être-le-là), 62 Death, 20, 25, 42, 92, 101, 190 Deconstruction, 10, 124, 125, 145, 180, 197– 198 Denzinger, Henry, Enchiridon Symbolorum, 154 Dependent co-origination (pratitya samutpada ), 40 Derrida, Jacques, viii, ix, 9–11, 12, 81–82, 112, 119–126, 129–133, 145, 176, 193, 197; on différance, 123, 130, 176, 197; on promise...