Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility

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INDEX abjection, 115–119, 150n. See also evil; natality Adams, John, 104 adikia, 86 Africa, 74, 82, 92, 113 Agamben, Giorgio, 16–17, 23, 85–88, 91, 112 aitia, 84 amour de soi, 42, 50 amour propre, 42, 110 appearance, 70, 85, 93, 125, 135; and biological life, 90; bodily, 90, 91; desire for, 126; and pleasure, 105, 130; in public, 61–63; and self-preservation, 104, 128, 146n; and temporality, 90. See also givenness Arabs, 100. See also Palestine arche, 55, 73, 83–84 Aristotle, 22, 77 Atelme, Robert Works: The Human Race, 92 Augenblick, 31, 27 Augustine, Saint, 54, 75–81, 86–88, 89, 92–93, 113, 118; amo: volu ut sis, 70–73, 75, 82, 86, 93; caritas, 182, 149n; cupiditas, 78–79 Works: On the Trinity, 76–77, 81; The Confessions, 81 Badiou, Alain, 87 Balkanization, 136 Beckett, Samuel, 62 Being, 84, 106; toward birth, 79–80; toward death, 79–80 Benhabib, Seyla, 59, 103, 143n Benjamin, Jessica, 118 Benjamin, Walter, 17, 19–22, 64, 66 Berlin, Isaiah, 47 Bernstein, Richard, 95 Bhaba, Homi, 64–65, 103 bios, 126–127, 148n. See also bios politicos; zoe bios politikos, 29–33, 70–71, 92 body, the, 78, 115–119, 148n; the mother’s, 118. See also embodiment Bohman, James, 134 Burke, Edmund, 45–46 Castoriadis, Cornelius, 58 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 121 Clemenceau, Georges, 102 communitarianism, 63 Conrad, Joseph, 74 death, 79–80, 106, 118, 123, 125, 152n; drives, 121–122; kinds of, 100. See also mortality Delos, J. T. Works: La Nation, 140–141 democracy, 44, 53, 138 Derrida, Jacques, 22 desolation, 116–119, 121–122, 130. See also abjection; isolation difference, 102, 127. See also natality Disraeli, Benjamin, 96 Dreyfus affair, the, 101–102 Eichmann, Adolf, 17, 49, 51, 58–59, 108–110, 121 embodiment, 70–73, 75, 83, 98; of law, 121. See also givenness; natality Enlightenment, the, 74, 96; ideal of humanity , 113 Entfernung, 28–30 evil, 105–106, 118, 121–122, 124; and abjection, 105; and envy, 118; radical, 107–111, 130 fascism, 111, 121–122 fatality, 28–33. See also death; mortality fear, 114–115, 120, 123–125, 127–129; as phobia, 121 federalism, 55. See also nation-state, the Ferry, Luc, 45 160 | Index finitude, 82 Flynn, Bernard, 25, 50 Foucault, Michel, 45 freedom, 60–62, 68–70, 75, 110–113; as beginning, 54–55; and communication, 67; individual, 52; of movement, 62; negative, 51–52, 60–61; and pleasure, 114, 124; positive, 61; and responsibility , 61 French revolution, the, 49–53 Freud, Sigmund, 115–118 friendship, 128–129, 153n; pleasure of, 114, 130, 142; political, 106, 128. See also natality Genesis, the Book of, 73 genesis estin, 84–86, 88–89 genocide, 75 given, the, 72, 75–78 givenness, 73, 93–94, 142; of appearance, 75, 83, 103; birth of, 77–81, 135; of history, 96–97; of Jewishness, 92; and natural right, 98; resentment of, 113; and temporality, 81 globalization, 134–135 Greek thought, 65, 73, 84. See also Heidegger, Martin Gross, Feliks, 137 Habermas, Jürgen, 51–54, 60–62, 65, 68, 144n Heidegger, Martin, 17, 22–24, 64–66, 79; on Anaximander, 84, 86; and Greek thought, 84 Heraclitus, 24 Herder, Johann Gottfried, 98 Herzl, Theodor, 95 Himmler, Heinrich, 109, 110, 121 Hitler, Adolf, 108–110, 119, 121 Hobbes, Thomas, 47–48, 56, 60, 108, 114–117, 124, 127, 136 Works: The Leviathan, 128 holocaust, 68 horror, 65, 115. See also fear; Kristeva, Julia Husserl, Edmund, 66 identity, 89, 95, 127; Jewish, 91 Ignatieff, Michael, 47–51, 60 individual, the, 47, 52, 96, 125–126 initium, 33–36, 51, 54, 70, 80–87, 94, 102–103, 113, 142. See also principle internationalism, 132–136, 139–142. See also nationalism isolation, 88–89, 96, 99, 111–112, 123–124, 130, 131. See also abjection; desolation Israel, 94, 99, 137–142, 154n Jaspers, Karl, 107 Jefferson, Thomas, 55 Jonas, Hans, 25 judgment, 66–68, 108; as krinein, 66. See also Kant, Immanuel jus naturale, 37 Kafka, Franz, 17–19, 22, 64 Works: He, 66; The Castle, 99 Kalon, 65–66 Kant, Immanuel, 52–58, 67, 108–109; sensus communis, 62 Works: Perpetual Peace, 64 Klein, Melanie, 122–124 Works: Tales of Love, 115–119 Kristeva, Julia, 113–119, 124, 128–131. See also abjection Works: Hannah Arendt, 105; Powers of Horror, 115; Strangers to Ourselves, 123 Lacan, Jacques, 116–119 law, 56, 57, 85–86, 109–121, 129, 135–136, 140–142; embodiment of, 108–109; of history...