Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma

Index

Aarsleff, Hans, 44, 210n6, 212n18 absence: of death, 10, 36; language enclosing, 176; nonpresence/ nonabsence, 112; nothingness in the word, 178–79; of the present in Hegel’s philosophy, 136; of a temporal dimension, 100–101 Agacinski, Sylviane, 85 aging: loss of (childhood) memory (Locke), 69–71 alienation: and ideal of freedom, 75; from the past, 5; remembered past and self-, 44; and restlessness, 1; spectator of self, 18; zoe not properly human, 204n23 America: as “the land of the future,” 135–36 animal(s): and act of naming, 177; versus human, 204n23, 228n42; and language, 59–60; memory and reminiscence, 46, 76; and spirit (Hegel), 111; talking parrot (Locke), 55–57, 60–61, 214n29; and the word “man,” 55 anthropomorphism in Greek art, 100– 101, 103, 104, 107–8, 110, 119 Arendt, Hannah: and Aristotle, 16, 18, 203–4n19; and Benjamin, 207–8n34; bios over zoe, 204n23; man and world relations, 206n30; mourning Communism, 204–5n23; narrative and human finitude, 35; philosophy as nonpolitical, 205n24; and Ricoeur, 16, 203n17; totalitarianism, 235n44 —Between Past and Future: Resistance experience, 36 —“Concept of History”: bios and human immortality, 13–15; history for ancient Greeks, 2–3, 14–15, 17–18; lifelessness in historical time, 10–11; Mnemosyne, 9, 14 —On Revolution: birth and natality, 203n18; freedom and liberty, 227n31; temporality of revolution, 144–45 —The Human Condition: birth and natality, 203n18; memory and immortality, 16, 22; modern history in terms of processes, 24–27; plurality, 17; Ulysses weeping, 18–19; vita activa and the vita contemplativa, 205n27 Ariès, Philippe: Hour of Our Death, 35, 207n32 Aristotle: and Arendt, 16, 203–4n19; on art, 218n18; on the intellect, 47; and Locke, 45–46; Locke’s critique of, 211–12n17; on memory, 68; On Memory, 46–47, 211n13; νούς, 22; Poetics, 16; tragedy, 18 art: and art theory, 93, 98, 220n25; and Christianity (Hegel), 95, 107– 10, 125; classical and symbolic art (Greek), 103–16; as “higher” (Hegel), 88–89; and memory/end of art, 85–94, 218–19nn17–20, 220n24; memory in creation of, 95–103; and nature, 89, 219n22; outside time/timelessness, 98; and philosophy, line blurred (Hegel), 87–89, 90–92; poetry as universal art (Hegel), 128–31; rebirth/double origin (Hegel), 89–92, 93; and thought connected through time, 92–93 Assmann, Jan, 220–21n28; Das kulturelle Gedächtnis, 2 atrocities repeated: memory as complicit, 4–5 i n de x Index 248 Bahti, Timothy, 101–3, 119, 161, 221–22n32 Balfour, Ian, 208n38 Barash, Jeffrey Andrew, 47 Barthes, Roland: “reality effect,” 12 Benjamin, Walter: and Arendt, 207– 8n34; Erfahrung and Erlebnis, 208n37; historicism critiqued, 10–11; secret between past and present, 27 —“On Language as Such and the Language of Man,” 208n38 —“On Some Motifs in Baudelaire,” 30, 34, 208n37 —“Theses on the Concept of History,” 227n39 —“Theses on the Philosophy of History”: Angel of History, 11; Seventh Thesis, 39; Thirteenth Thesis, 36 —“The Storyteller”: and Arendt, 207– 8n34; Augenblick, 32, 208n39; citation of “Unexpected Reunion,” 209n42; the end of narrative, 27–34; Herodotus, 32–33; Mnemosyne, 9–10; temporality and death, 34–39 Bident, Christophe, 172 bios: distinct from zoe, 204n23; narrative structure, 15, 17; without birth and death, 25, 27. See also body/corporality Blanchot, Maurice: absent meaning of disaster, 199; difficulty of his texts, 172–73, 188, 230n1; impatience/patience, 172; notion of the end, 173; refusal to “let go” of mourning, 175–76; words as “monsters,” 177 —Après coup, 176; before and after, 189; désormais, 194; English translation, 233n29, 234n33, 234n36; Le Ressassement éternel, 189–90, 233n31; non-perspective, 197, 200; provenance of texts, 188–90, 233n30, 234nn33–35; the récit and “before Auschwitz,” 192, 193–95, 195–99, 235n44; récit-fiction, 196–97; in relation to Holocaust, 190, 193–95, 234n37, 234n39; retrospection blocked by the future, 191–92; as retrospective essay/futurity, 188, 190; scholarly engagement with, 187–88, 233n27; Sophie’s Choice (Styron), 196, 235n43; “The Idyll,” 188, 190, 200, 235n43; “The Last Word,” 188, 200; time’s lack of punctuation, 197; trauma in narrative, 196–97; writer and authority, 190–91 —“Do Not Forget,” 198, 236n48, 236n50 —Le Pas au-delà, 199, 236n52 —“Literature and the Right to Death”: before and after, 184–86, 195; before and after/retrospection, 186–87, 189; afterwardsness/ after-words, 181–82, 232n19; excursus on the “word,” 177– 87; language and ideal negation, 179–87, 232n17; Lazarus, 181; life already bound to death, 179; literary language’s failure, 180–81; living thing...