Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate

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Index Abraham, 2–3, 21, 27, 31, 121, 188, 211 R. Abraham ibn Daud, 182 absolute otherness, 8, 53, 93–94, 130, 135, 139–45, 156–59, 197–200, 207, 209–17, 225–28, 236–41, 244–49, 313n51, 331n123 Absolute Spirit, 5 Absolute Thou, 59–60, 104, 114–18, 160–61, 285n33. See also God abstraction, 242, 290n2 fascination of, 206 method of, 67 spirit of, 67–68, 75, 123, 139–45, 204–6, 221, 258–59 ‘‘Adieu’’ (Derrida), 140 Against Ethics (Caputo), 262 agape, 86 agathon, 253 alter ego, 141, 143–45, 151 alterity, 12, 24, 29–30, 52, 100, 116–18, 227–28, 264–65. See also other absolute, 139–45, 156–59, 164, 175, 180, 193, 195, 202, 206, 266 Christian vs. Jewish views of, 176 experience of, 213 of God, 159–63, 175, 193, 316n85 otherness vs., 229, 232–33 349 of other vs. of God, 159–63, 170 privacy and, 41 relative, 156–59, 180, 307n1 similitude and, 207, 227–30, 309n16 of transcendence, 142 anamnesis, 5, 28, 96, 108, 166, 173–74 anti-Semitism, 186 apophatic theology, 194, 207, 230, 249, 321n1 aporias, 228, 241, 328n90 Aristophanes, 24 Aristotle, 3–4, 17, 114, 226, 255–57 asymmetry, 132–34, 137–39, 204 ‘‘At This Very moment In This Work Here I Am’’ (Derrida), 140 ataraxy, 25–26 atheism, 25, 188, 213, 319n120 Augustine, Saint, 14, 20, 165–66, 173–74 autonomy, 89 autrui, 23, 26, 41–43, 49–50, 129, 132, 151, 171, 176. See also other availability. See disponibilité being, 98, 104–5, 116, 148 with, 75–76 as Absolute Thou, 59–60 beyond, 224 clearing of, 5 goodness vs., 241 having and, 60–62 human, 79 question of, 63 Being and Having (Marcel), 104, 220 Being and Time (Heideggger), 17, 125, 244 belief, 60, 80–81, 83, 285n33, 334n151 Bernasconi, Robert, 12, 140, 144 between, 109–11 biology, 200 blind servitude, 127–39 Blundell, Boyd, 67, 219 body, 61 Boer, Theodore de, 12 broken world, 56–58, 62, 64, 96, 118 Brunschvicg, Léon, 120 Buber, Martin, 35, 44, 118, 138, 148, 165, 181–82, 287n89, 297n81 Judaism and, 189–92 Marcel and, 6, 94–97, 106, 108 call, 6–8, 18, 34–35, 37, 43, 47, 78–79, 118, 129–31 Caputo, John D., 10, 194, 208–9, 214–17, 222–23, 226–28, 230–32, 241, 248, 250–57, 262–64, 269–70, 273n20, 323n17 Cartesian Meditations (Husserl), 101, 141 cases, people as, 74–75, 78 Le chemin de crête (Marcel), 53 chiasm, 134, 261, 303n49, 328n90 child, 281n116 Christ, 162, 176, 178 Christianity, 114, 159, 163–64, 175–83, 190, 195, 310n30, 311n37, 318n106, 321n149 Cohen, Richard, 146, 202, 235, 241 command, 31–33, 42–43, 313n53 commitment, 83–84, 90–91 communion, 87, 100, 103, 187, 190, 239 community, individualism vs., 102 compassion, 46 concrete applicability, 145–49 concrete philosophy, 54–56, 66, 92, 102 conduct, 148–49, 151 350 Index constellations, 72, 101, 158, 218, 225, 238, 327n84 conviction, 80–81, 83, 90–91 Copernican revolution, 18 creative fidelity, 79–85, 100, 107, 134, 136, 202, 220 Creative Fidelity (Marcel), 54, 160 creativity, 113, 124, 153 critique ontology and, 17–20 transcendental vs. concrete, 123 truth and, 17–20 Dasein, 14 De Magistro (Augustine), 165, 173–74 death of God, 188 of love, 313n55 of loved other, 243 of other, 120–21 decisions, 248 deconstruction, 223, 226–28, 237, 244–45, 251–55, 259–62, 331n132 pessimism of, 262 religion and, 215–16, 334n149 Derrida, Jacques, 10, 140–41, 143–45, 159, 192, 194, 207–18, 222–23, 226–28, 230–32, 241, 250–51, 257, 261, 266, 269–70 Levinas and, 216 religion and, 215–16 Descartes, René, 15, 27, 30, 98, 108, 118–20, 140, 172–74, 277n28 desire, 22, 26–28, 85, 89, 159, 190 despair, 86, 124, 289n111 destitution, 33–34, 42–43, 49, 139 determinism, 249 cultural, 251 soft, 250–54, 261, 263, 268 dialogue, 95–97 différance, 215–17, 248 Difficult Freedom (Levinas), 120, 181, 187–88 disponibilité, 72–84, 95, 100–103, 107, 124, 134, 136, 153, 161, 191, 202, 208, 220, 289n132, 303n49 divinity, 23, 25. See also God dogmatism, 19–20, 254, 256 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 131, 302n30 double asymmetry, 137–38 doubt, 10, 84 Dudiak, Jeffrey, 12, 132, 304n61 durability, 83 duty, 135 economy, 24–26, 143 ‘‘The End of Ego and...