The Intersubjectivity of Time: Levinas and Infinite Responsibility

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207 INDEX Abraham, 10, 14, 16, 164–66, 168, 172, 179, 181, 183n14; and “Here I am,” 8–9, 11–13. See also Akedah, the; Bible; father-son relation; Isaac Akedah, the, 8, 11–13, 164. See also Abraham; Isaac alterity, 2–5, 86, 171, 178, 180; absolute, 69–70, 82, 190n28; and constitution of time, 61–72, 111, 121, 169; demand of, 134, 136, 149–50; and diachrony, 114–15, 124–25, 130, 182n3; and individual, 16, 139, 149–50; insufficient, 56, 64; lacking in Bergson, 25; lacking in Heidegger, 49, 52, 60; and other, 92, 96, 103–04, 187n22; and prayer, 141, 153–55; reduction of, 138, 149, 151, 161; and subject, 78, 82; unreachable, 134 American Civil War, the, 29–30 Aristotle, 73, 96, 112, 125, 160; and the now, 18, 59, 187n11, 188n33, 190n32; On Generation and Corruption, 190n35; Physics, 62–63, 72, 98; and traditional interpretation of time, 33, 34, 36, 41, 101 asymmetry, 134, 139, 171, 177 asymmetrical relation, 89, 92–93, 112–13, 151, 154 authenticity, 40, 41, 44–47, 77 Autrui, 71, 74. See also Other, the becoming, 23, 57, 89, 100, 101, 119 being, 33, 38, 48, 50–52, 58, 61, 66, 69, 70, 94. See also being-toward-death; Dasein; Heidegger, Martin being-toward-death, 37, 40, 51, 52, 68, 98 Beistegui, Miguel de, 41, 48 Bergo, Bettina, 139, 175 Bergson, Henri, 61, 68–70, 101, 120, 125, 173, 184n7; Creative Evolution, 24, 25, 31; duration (durée), 18–20, 65, 96–97; and ethics, 20–25; and future and past, 75–76; and Levinas, 3, 15–16, 54–58, 110–11; “Hommage à Bergson” (Levinas), 159–60; and society, 25–32; and temporality, 80, 160; and time, 63–64, 72, 73, 117; Time and Free Will, 17, 20, 24, 26, 27; Two Sources of Morality and Religion, 23, 25, 30, 31 Bernet, Rudolf, 96 Bernstein, Richard, 106 Bible: Genesis, 58; Cain and Abel, 164; Caleb, 169–70; Ishmael, 12; Jacob and Esau, 164; Joshua, 169–70; Saul and Jonathan, 164. See also Abraham; Isaac; Moses biological relations, 88, 87, 94, 100, 101 Blanchot, Maurice, 90–93, 97, 99, 100, 125, 126, 129. See also substitution Blattner, William D., 33, 38 Blidstein, Jerald, 169, 170 Blitz, Mark, 44 Bovo, Elena, 64 Buber, Martin, 92, 144 208 Index care (Sorge), 34, 51, 52, 60; structure of, 35, 36, 39, 40 Cartesian thinking, 24, 55, 73, 74, 138, 187n15. See also cogito; Descartes, René Caygill, Howard, 138–39, 175, 177 Chalier, Catherine, 166 change, 62–63, 119 Chanter, Tina, 34, 54, 70–71, 82, 89 Ciaramelli, Fabio, 60, 74 clock time, 4, 17–18, 33, 39, 112–13, 123, 136 cogito, 48, 60, 101. See also Cartesian thinking; Descartes, René Cohen, Richard A., 17, 66, 68, 82, 112, 140–41, 187n22 collective prayer, 141, 144, 148, 155, 157 collective time, 135, 136–37, 140, 146 communal experience, 146–47 communal prayer, 141, 151, 152, 154–55 communal time, 133–41 community, 45–50, 134, 135, 148, 149, 153 conatus essendi, 11, 165. See also selfpreservation conversation, 49, 50, 107, 117, 119, 121, 127–29. See also dialogue; language cosmological time, 52, 56, 101, 154 covenant, 151–54, 156, 157; of Abraham, 9, 12, 164–65 Critchley, Simon, 55, 74, 109–10, 137, 139, 175 Cronos, 16, 159–62, 163. See also Greek myth cyclical (circular) time, 101–02 Dasein, 37–39, 41–42, 48–52, 66–68, 73, 94, 101, 111, 173; authentic, 34–36, 40, 43–47, 60–61; as being-with, 55–56; leaping-in and leaping-ahead, 185n33; Schatzki and, 184n17. See also Heidegger, Martin death, 71, 74–75, 98, 101; birth and, 40, 41; Dasein and, 35, 37; otherness of, 66–72. See also dying, mortality Delhom, Pascal, 77 Deleuze, Gilles, 24 Derrida, Jacques, 7, 104, 106 Descartes, René, 48, 55, 73. See also Cartesian thinking; cogito destiny (Geschick), 42, 43–44, 47, 98 determinism, 21 Dewitte, Jacques, 108–09, 190n40 diachronic time, 105, 166, 168, 169, 175, 190n40, 191n4; and Diaspora, 176, 177, 178; and individual, 133, 144; and collective time, 135–36, 157; presentation of, 106–16; and interruption, 121, 123–26, 129, 179; and speech and dialogue, 8, 14, 15–16, 119, 123–24, 130; and fecund time, 131, 132, 158, 173; and music, 120. See also diachrony diachrony, 14, 129, 144, 158, 180, 181; of time, 137, 143; and interruption, 123–24; as key to Levinasian thought, 2; and collective time, 135. See also diachronic...