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absolute. See Hegel, G.W.F.: absolute (spirit) absolute knowledge. See Hegel, G.W.F.: absolute (spirit) absolute rending, 37, 49, 52, 57, 67, 162, 186, 187, 192, 236n. 112 Adorno, Theodor, 14, 34, 238n.141, 257n. 131 Anaximander, 5 an-economy, 71, 112, 199 anguish. See anxiety anxiety, 52, 64, 72, 184, 192; response to, in Bataille, 53, 65–66, 70, 211, 212; response to, in Hegel, 49–50 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 173–74, 263n. 37 Baas, Bernard, 246n. 68, 248n. 108 Baudelaire, Charles, 151–52, 211 Baudrillard, Jean, 9, 241n. 3 Beckett, Samuel, 117 Benjamin, Walter, 11, 19, 123 Bergson, Henri, 209, 274–75n. 55 Blanchot, Maurice, 9–11, 162, 250n. 13, 262–63n. 34 Bloom, Allan, 225n. 32 Boehme, Jakob, 176, 264–65n. 63 Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, 197–98, 254n. 82, 255n. 91, 269n. 142, 272n. 8, 9, 274n. 54, 274–75n. 55 Breton, André, 10 Bukowski, Charles, 54 Burbridge, John W., 223n. 6, 227n. 51, 54, 237n. 120 Callois, Roger, 10, 247n. 92 Calvin, John, 110, 248n. 112 Cassirer, Ernst, 84–86, 103–4, 121, 243–44n. 29, 248n. 99 Celan, Paul, 147–48, 151, 153, 258n. 132, 259n. 156, 157 Cezanne, Paul, 141 chance: 67–73. See also play; risk communication, 136, 157–59, 168, 188, 199–201, 206, 211–14, 217 consciousness: 40, 42, 98, 223n. 1, 251n. 31; primitive, 85, 104. See also individuation , principle of; intimacy, and consciousness; self-consciousness; work consumption. See economics, expenditure continuity. See intimacy death, 37, 138, 164, 187; assumption of, 48–49, 142, 165, 207, 214; desire for, 193; fear of, 7, 44, 51, 53; knowledge of, 163, 193; manifestation of, 48, 195, 197, 236n. 101; relation of life and, 44, 46, 194, 201; taken too seriously , 52–54, 60, 65 Debord, Guy, 55 Derrida, Jacques, 9, 12–13, 28, 45, 60, 124, 136, 145, 199, 224n. 15, 237n. 121, 249n. 4, 252n. 58, 254n. 79 Descartes, René, 172–74, 223n. 3 Descombes, Vincent, 225n. 23, 233n. 66, 240n. 173, 258n. 134 287 Index desire: 42–43, 51, 73, 90; as self-consciousness , 42–43, 90, 234n. 75; dialectic of, 47, 234n. 74, 252n. 47 (see also master/slave dialectic); for loss, 41, 88–89, 163, 191, 204; for non-obect (for nothing), 41, 72, 166, 191, 193, 195–96, 204 Desmond, William, 223n. 5, 246n. 76, 77 Desnos, Robert, 10 dialectic, 214, 221; empty, 165 discontinuity. See individuation, principle of discourse, 138, 252n. 54, 253n. 61; and death, 132–35; attempt to ruin, 124, 145, 149; Hegelian, via Kojève, 123–24, 127–33, 250n. 27; humanity as, 130; movement of, 121; totalizing, 118, 126, 129, 137 dissatisfaction, 185, 196, 207, 215, 221 divine. See sacred Eckhart, Meister, 169–70, 176–82, 185, 206, 265n. 63, 71, 75, 266n. 81 economics, 78–81, 87, 111–12; expenditure (dépense), 44, 75, 79–95 passim, 245n. 56; general, 154; primitive, 83–84, 243n. 26; production, 81–82, 92 ecstasis (ecstasy): 181–82, 185, 206. See also eroticism; inner experience end of history, 15–17, 19, 40–41, 60, 72–73, 96, 129, 227n. 47 Enlightenment, the, 31, 174, 176, 223n. 3 Éluard, Paul, 258n. 144 eroticism, 156, 185–86, 194, 201–4; and knowledge, 156–57, 202–3, 271n. 165; and language, 184 Fackenheim, Emil, 232n. 43 fascism. See national socialism Feuerbach, Ludwig, 14, 26 Fichte, J. G., 39, 223n. 3 finitude, 163–64, 184, 196, 212, 216, 218, 220, 222; as divine, 164; Hegelian, 15, 18, 37, 232n. 47, 48 Flay, Joseph, 32, 225n. 30, 230n. 33, 234n. 71 Foucault, Michel, 9, 228n. 1 Freud, Sigmund, 13, 42, 139, 183, 211, 225n. 21, 252n. 48, 267n. 104, 269n. 136, 272–73n. 10 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 251n. 36 gift, the. See Mauss, Marcel God, 109–10, 122, 153, 168, 172–74, 183; and GOD, 178–82, 185; domestic , 99, 100, 164–65, 215–16; erotic, 166, 185–86, 201, 205–6, 271n. 163, 164; excessive, 101, 154, 162, 165, 171, 185, 207; experience of, 180, 186, 206; revelation of, 171, 175–76; unknown, 167 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 147, 210, 240n. 183 Goux, Jean-Joseph, 9, 112, 249n. 119 Goya, Francisco, 141; The Third of May, 141, 256n. 102 Grier, Philip T., 225n. 33 Habermas, Jürgen, 81, 111, 242n. 10, 244n. 41, 248n. 115, 249n. 118 Harris, Errol E., 14, 226n. 34 Hegel, J.W.F.: absolute (spirit): and immediacy, 131–32, 137, 253n. 62; as subject, 17–18, 29, 35, 129; Bataille’s undermining of...

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