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Abel, Karl: Freud, 188, 376 Abelian words, 188, 201, 211, 217, 220, 272, 323, 333. See also under quasiAbelian Abraham: and Isaac, 27, 28, 36–38, 42, 43, 49, 145, 342, 373; Koran, 65 Abraham, Nicolas, 240 absolute, 27, 28, 38, 68; absolutes, 74–76; Kierkegaard, 27; my eternal validity, 66; other, 43. See also under wisdom absolution, 26 activity and passivity, 21, 155, 211 address, 144, 209, 214, 219, 243, 251, 256, 306, 330, 334, 337, 414; addressance , 389; prayer, 338, 362, 382, 388; quasi-, 394; singularity, 399 Adieu, 359, 363, 371 affection, 183, 304; self-affection, 304 Agamben, Giorgio: sovereign, 406, 416; quid facti and quid juris, 406, 416 Alexander of Aphrodisias: active intellect , 28 amor fati, 131–136, 159, 165, 168 Andersen, Hans Christian, 357 animals, 41, 113 another world, 2, 130, 307 Anselm, Saint, 364 anxiety: faith, 102 aporia: problem, 263, 265 Apollonian and Dionysian, 108–110, 130, 172, 404 appearance and reality: Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, 109, 115–116 Aquinas, Thomas, 82 archi-exceptionality, 386 archi-sublimity (quasi-sublimity), 3, 311, 345, 348, 352, 355, 360, 361, 372, 387, 404–405 Aristotle, 7, 9; active intellect, 28; prayer, 361 Armstrong, Karen: imagination, 253 art, 108–111, 172, 256; Collingwood, 324; Levinas, 330; Nietzsche and Kierkegaard , 248, 357 atheism and a-theism, 255, 265, 271, 409 attention, 245; Weil, 246 Aufhebung, 8, 56–58, 60, 69, 122, 189, 196, 373, 381 Augustine, Saint, 249, 262; language and Wittgenstein, 322–323 Austin, John, 97, 207, 311, 410; felicity of speech acts, 321; Marcel, 404; serious , 405 Bachelard, Gaston, 150 Badiou, Alain, 213–214; exceptional, 407 INDEX 464 | INDEX Barth, Karl: prayer, 257 Bataille, Georges, 310 beauty, 315, 338; Collingwood, 324; to kalon, 324; Kant, 348–349, 354–355; sublime, 324–325, 353, 357, 371, 377, 404; what is?, 72, 256 Benveniste, Émile: sacred and holy, 330 Bergson, Henri, 149, 150, 415 between, 1 Bible, 114, 134 Bigger, Charles, 266–267; allure, 271; beauty, 270, 271; between, 267; chōra, 267, 275, 277, 279, 282, 285; deixis, 277, 278; Desire, 274; dwelling, 272; fecundity, 369–370; Good, 269, 270, 274; hypodochē, 273, 274, 275; hypostasis , 276; incarnation, 271; Levinas and disincarnation, 271; metaphor, 267, 270, 272, 273–274; Plato, 269; saying, 269; song, 268; suasion, 273, 276; Timaeus, 270, 275; woman, 272; Virgin Mary, 273, 275, 281, 283, 287; woman, 272; Zōodochus Pēgē, 273 birth, 112; and copulation, and death, 4, 288, 292, 305, 311, 336, 338, 358, 374–375, 382, 393, 413 Blanchot, Maurice: impossibility, 148, 157; sans, 256 Bobby, 340 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 320, 343 Book of Common Prayer, 3, 249, 299– 300, 302–303, 310, 333 boundary and limit (Grenze and Schranke), 3, 12–14, 23–24, 29, 30, 233, 263, 272, 290, 306, 347–348, 361, 378; aporia, 301; Derrida and Kierkegaard, 390; threshold of life and death, 382 Brandes, Georg, 107 Breton, André, 307–308 Buddhism, 25, 85, 109, 300, 314; European , 132 calculation, 239, 373, 412 Caputo, John, 2, 162, 265, 287, 321 caress, 46 Carroll, Lewis, 143 categorical imperative, 40, 305, 373 Chalier, Catherine, 387 chiasmus, 10–11, 252, 277, 281, 338, 359, 390, 404 chōra, 68, 267, 279, 282, 285, 400; Sallis, 277 Christianity, 25, 26, 28, 29, 40, 63, 77, 78; Christendom, 76, 77, 78, 88, 416; difficulty, 61, 73; hating your neighbour , 43, 390; hating this world, 65; joy, 66; no palliative, 99; Pauline and Lutheran, 111 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: sublime, 338 Collingwood, Robin George: assertion, 319; holiness, 319; intellectualism, 318, 322; presuppositions, 318, 319, 321; the sublime, 324 compassion: pity, 120–122 conditioning reversed, 288, 293, 362 confession, 262 Confucianism, 314 conjunction and disjunction, 171, 190– 191, 331; outwith, 193–195, 199–200, 376 conscience: Heidegger, 184; Levinas, 203 creativity, 117, 151; Levinas and Nietzsche , 153 Darwin, Charles, 110 Dawkins, Richard, 313–315, 329 death: of a friend, 2, 258, 339, 403, 412; Weil and imagination of death, 371 decision, 21, 28, 37, 39, 54, 57, 373; choice, 63–66, 68; mad, 416 deconstruction, 115–116, 134, 197, 202, 281, 289, 416 Deleuze, Gilles: democracy, 156; events, 159, 166, 167; haecceity, 161, 166; imperialism of language, 147; joy, 158; laughter, 151; metaphysics, 140; Nietzsche and Levinas, 162; Oedipus, 149, 157, 160; Omnitudo realitatis, 156, 159; questioning, 142–144; resingularization , 162; rhizomes, 304; schizoanalysis, 155, 161, 163; Scotus, 161; sense and nonsense, 143; stuttering , 148; territory, 159–161, 222; transcendental empiricism, 141 democracy, 3, 156, 337, 359, 368, 379, 381–382, 387, 401, 402, 404–405, 416...

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