Giving an Account of Oneself

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INDEX Abrams, M. H., 139n1 Adorno, Theodor W., 113, 118; on ethos and morality, 3–5, 8–10; critique of abstract universality, 4–7; on the human, 21, 60– 62, 101–107, 111; theory of responsibility, 21, 110; critique of the will, 105, 107–109; and Foucault, 109–110, 132; on Nietzsche , 133 Altruism, 31, 34 Aggression, 9, 26, 33, 76–77, 92, 95, 96, 98; Nietzsche’s account of, 13–14; as basis for morality, 16, 49; self-defense as justi- fication for, 100, 101; in relation to ethical violence, 62 Arendt, Hannah, 20, 30, 31 Bataille, Georges, 117 Beauvoir, Simone de, 45 Benjamin, Walter, 60–61, 141n17 Blanchot, Maurice, 84, 117 Bollas, Christopher, 55–59, 70 Brooks, Peter, 140n9 Brown, Wendy, 144n8 Bush, George W., 5 Caruth, Cathy, 72–75, 141n15 Cavarero, Adriana, 20, 30, 43, 55; contra Nietzsche, 31, 32; on dependency, 33; on singularity, 34–35; and Ricoeur, 138n9 Celan, Paul, 65 Condemnation, 46–49 147 Corporeality, 33, 83, 132 Critical inquiry: and the conditions of truth 131, 132; ethics as a practice of, 8, 82, 109– 110, 124; and parrhesia, 130 Cynics, the, 126, 129 Death: and discourse, 35–36, 65, 79; in ‘‘The Judgment,’’ 46–49, 60, 74; and ethics, 49, 65; in ‘‘Cares of a Family Man,’’ 62, 141n17; of the other, 75–77, 79, and the drives, 71, 141n15 Deleuze, Gilles, 139n4 Derrida, Jacques, 141n17 Desire: and recognition, 26, 33, 44; satisfaction of, 43; for life, 49; as part of transference , 50; Laplanche, 72–74, 135; Foucault on, 112, 128 De Vries, Hent, 144n6 Ego: in subject formation, 52, 58, 59; Laplanche’s account of, 73–74, 97; self preservation and, 92; Levinas’s account of, 86–87, 97, 134 Ethics: as distinguished from morality, 3–5, 139n4; and social theory, 8, 23, 110; of responsibility, 20, 100–101, 110, 133, 135– 146, 144n8; and recognition, 25–27, 33, 41–45, 49; as relational, 40, 78–79, 82; and transference, 64; and rhetoric, 139. See also Critical Inquiry. 148 Index Felman, Shoshana, 139n21, 140n8 Finitude, human, 75, 141n17; and dependence 80–82 Fletcher, John, 142n19 Foucault, Michel: on the politics of truth 16–20, 25, 30, 44; on power and its forms, 15, 122–125, 145n11; on norms of recognition, 26; on the subject as a problem for ethics, 22–26, 109–111, 114, 117, 120–124, 132–134; on narrating the self, 35, 36, 111–116, 121–122, 146n15; and phenomenology, 115–117; on parrhesia, 125–127, 130–131, 145n14, 146n15 Forgiveness, 79, 42, 125, 136; as mercy, 101; as ethical capaciousness, 103 Fortleben, 141n17 Freud, Sigmund: on conscience and morality , 16, 39, 99, 100; on the unconscious, 72; on decentering the sovereign subject, 75; on the drives, 141n15, 143n20 Frankfurt School, 118 Gilmore, Leigh, 30, 141n10 Greenblatt, Stephen, 139n20 Habermas, Jürgen. See Frankfurt School Hegel, G. W. F., 6, 20; on the subject and recognition, 4, 26–34, 41, 43 Heidegger, Martin, 33, 76, 104–105 Holocaust. See Nazi genocide Hope, 61, 62, 105; its possibility, 21 Human, inhuman, dehumanization, 5, 13, 29–31,45, 61–62, 75–76, 83, 95, 101–107, 110, 111, 133–136. See also Adorno, Theodor; Odradek; Subject Husserl, Edmund, 76, 115 Ibsen, Henrik, 108 Iraq, American policy toward, 5 Israel, 93 Job, 76 Johnson, Barbara, 140n7 Judaism, 93–96 Kafka, Franz, 64, 90, 105; ‘‘The Judgment,’’ 46–49, 60, 62, 74, 141n17; ‘‘Cares of a Family Man,’’ 61–63; and Walter Benjamin , 60–61; and Theodor Adorno, 60– 62. See also Odradek Kant, Immanuel, 32, 69, 83, 108, 111 Keenan, Thomas, 9, 37; on responsibility and anonymity, 143n1 Kierkegaard, Søren, 7 Klein, Melanie, 103 Lacan, Jacques, 37, 43, 52, 127, 142n19 Laplanche, Jean: on constitutive foreignness , 53–55, 70, 74–74, 84, 97, 128–129; on the primacy of seduction, 71–72, 135; on the drives, 71, 87, 98–99; on enigmatic signifiers, 72, 73, 142n19; on the death of the other, 75–77; on Levinas, 76–77, 90, 96–97; differences with ego psychology, 98 Levinas, Emmanuel, 20, 27, 30, 76, 128–129; on the impress of the Other, x, 23, 53, 84, 134–135; on persecution, 85–87, 88, 92–95, 102, 109; on passivity, 87–89; on the ‘‘face’’ of the Other, 69, 90–92; on Judaism, 93–96; racism of, 94; and psychoanalysis , 96–98; on the ethical limits of self preservation, 100, 105 Malabou, Catherine, 138n13 Masochism, 48, 141n15 Modernity, 62, 113, 117,130 Nancy, Jean...