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“aboutness,” 75, 80, 81–86, 87, 88, 91, 94– 97, 99, 100, 101, 104, 116n4 abuse of speech, abuse of words, 20, 24, 25, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 54, 119n26 action, 4, 8, 15, 78, 79; in Hegel, acting conscience, 16, 49–74, 106, 125–26n36; in Hobbes, 44 actualization, 8, 49, 51, 53, 56, 61–64, 68, 69, 70, 73–74, 105–6 agency, 3, 9, 12, 15, 17, 18, 50, 78, 106, 108–10 Arendt, Hannah, 81 Aristotle, 25, 45, 117n18, 134n35 attestation, 80, 98–103, 107, 135n50 Augustine, 12–16, 114n17 Austin, J. L., 9–12, 50, 101, 115n2 authority, 19, 22, 24, 26, 34–37, 42, 116n4 beautiful soul, 48, 55, 65, 67–68, 73, 106 “being,” 45, 80, 91–98, 107, 135n44, 135n47 being, question of, 17, 81–86, 88, 91, 94– 98, 107, 132n23, 135n44, 135nn46–47 Bernasconi, Robert, 115n2, 121n57 bindingness, 4–9, 12, 19–20, 24, 46–47, 52, 74, 78, 104–10; as an awkward term, 4–5, 111n4; of civil law, 34–37, 115n2; of conscience, 4–9, 13, 15–18, 26–27, 49– 50, 65, 104, 107; of declaration of obedience to the sovereign, 24; of duty, 6–7, 16–17, 49–57, 59–61, 67, 68, 73, 106; of figures, 4–9, 13, 16, 46–47, 105, 107, 109; to God, 12–16; of texts, 5, 7, 9, 13–18, 20, 49, 75, 78–79, 80, 102–3, 110, 113n9. See also figuration; performativity. Bruzina, Ronald, 82, 89, 101 Butler, Judith, 6, 28, 50, 106, 113n9 catachresis, 3–6, 8–9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 28, 80, 82–86, 88, 91, 95, 98, 101, 103, 111n2, 134n41. See also figuration; metaphor; trope. commonwealth, 16, 19–28, 32, 35, 43, 44, 115n4 community of consciences, 48, 55, 65, 66– 67, 106 concealment: in Hegel, 68; in Hobbes, 13, 30, 32–34, 38, 42, 45, 46, 48 confession, 48, 55, 65, 70–71, 74, 125n34. See also Augustine. conscience, 3–9, 18, 111n3, 112n5, 114n23; Augustine and, 12–16, 114n17; Hegel and, 16–17, 18, 48–74, 75, 78, 79; Heidegger and, 17, 18, 74, 80, 83, 85, 86, 91, 93, 98–103, 104, 106, 107, 135n50, 135–36n53; Hobbes and, 16, 17, 18, 19–20, 24, 26–34, 36, 37, 38, 39– 40, 42, 43, 44, 45–47, 51, 53–55, 104–5. See also figures of conscience. constatives, 5, 6, 9–10, 15, 16, 51, 75, 80, 82, 88–89, 96, 100, 101, 104, 108 contradiction, 16, 48, 49, 52, 54, 55, 57, 60, 62, 65–71, 74, 78, 105, 106, 125n32 conviction, 53–54, 56, 59, 60, 62–65, 68 Dasein, 17, 80, 83, 90, 98–103, 104, 107 Davies, Catherine Glyn, 112n5 deception, 19, 20–21, 25, 41, 44, 51, 53– 54, 104, 118n26 declaration: of conscience in Hegel, 16– 17, 48–54, 58, 59–64, 65–71, 73–74, 75, 78, 105–6, 125n34; loyalty to sovereign and, 24 defamiliarization, 80, 85, 88, 96–98, 107, 131n11 de Man, Paul, 136n3 Derrida, Jacques, 111n2 dissemblance (Verstellung, also ‘displacement ’), 53, 59–61, 62, 73, 106 Index 155 dramatization, 49–50, 75, 106. See also enactment; inscenation; staging. duty, 4, 5, 8, 16–17, 49, 50–69, 73, 74, 106, 125n34 eloquence, 20–24, 59 enactment, 18, 50, 57, 68, 74–75, 78, 80, 103, 105, 114n15. See also dramatization; inscenation; staging. error, 19, 20, 22, 26, 104 ethics, 4, 16, 54 evil, 51, 57–59, 65, 67–72, 73, 74, 125n34, 125n36 example, 4, 5, 8, 16, 19, 20, 27, 33, 44, 45, 65, 66, 73, 82, 101, 103–8, 113n7, 118n24, 120n39, 128n53; exemplary performance, 82, 94, 99, 102, 103 failure, rhetorical, 16, 48–49, 52, 62–74, 75, 78 Fehér, Istvan, 84 Figal, Günter, 81 figuration, figurative language, 4–5, 8–9, 17–18, 27, 44, 46, 48, 50, 80, 82, 84–87, 99, 104, 107–10, 111n4, 113n6, 135n51; dangers of, 16, 19–21, 30, 31–33, 36, 40– 42, 43, 45, 46–47, 104–5; of privacy, 27– 28; versus literalness, 3–4, 6, 45, 113n7, 133n34, 135n51. See also bindingness of figures; catachresis; literalness; metaphor ; paradiastole; representation; representation-into-existence; syllepsis; trope. figures of conscience, 3–6, 8–9, 18, 113n9; in Augustine, 13–16; in Hegel, 48, 65– 74, 105–6; in Heidegger, 17, 30, 98–102, 106–7, 135–36n53; in Hobbes, 28–31, 104–5, 119n31; in Kant, 7–8. See also conscience. Fink, Eugen...

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