Index Abensour, Miguel, 93 abolitionism, 15, 63–67, 95, 124–8, 130–2, 140, 142–3, 146, 148n, 157, 169, 172–6, 178, 179–80, 182–7, 189–91, 193, 195–7. See also Brown, John; Garrison, William Lloyd; slavery accountability. See obligation, ethical Adams, John, 21, 55–6, 96 African Americans, 1–2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 30, 33–51, 63–4, 77–8, 87–8, 94–5, 102–5, 107, 113–5, 121, 123, 124–6, 128–48, 169– 70, 172–5, 177–80, 182–7, 188, 190–1, 193, 196–7. See also African in the tree; Brown, John; Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de; Douglass, Frederick; Jefferson, Thomas; Paine, Thomas African in the tree (Crèvecoeur), 33–51 Aldridge, A. Owen, 60–1 alterity. See face of the Other ‘‘American mind’’ (Jefferson), 1–2, 54, 55, 56, 95–6, 148, 149, 158, 175, 186, 190–1 Ankersmit, F. R., 83–4, 88 anschauung, 56, 63, 84, 86, 92, 108, 180, 192 anti-Semitism, 3, 8–9, 12, 167–8. See also Himmler, Heinrich Arendt, Hannah, 72–3, 97, 98, 100, 116–8, 120 Aristotle, 70–2, 74, 99 ‘‘back settlers’’ (Crèvecoeur), 26–9, 51–2 Bailyn, Bernard, 57, 59–60, 96–7 205 Barthes, Roland, 167 Baudrillard, Jean, 88 Beale, D. A., 61 Being. See ontology Bentham, Jeremy, 96 Botts, Lawson, 191 Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 192–4 Brown, John: and African American supporters , 172–3, 188, 197; death of, 172, 175, 187, 195–6; as ‘‘great criminal,’’ 172–4, 176–8, 182–3, 193, 195–6, 198; at Harpers Ferry, 172–7, 179, 184–5, 187–8, 189, 190–2, 193–4, 198; alleged insanity of, 175, 176, 177, 181, 184, 187, 191–2, 194; trial of, 175, 177–8, 183, 191–2, 198; post-trial oratory of, 183–4, 186; religious convictions of, 183, 193–5; at Pottawatomie Creek, 188–90, 198; mentioned, 2, 16, 123 Buber, Martin, 61 Burke, Edmund, 37–42. See also ‘‘substitution ’’; sympathy Cadava, Eduardo, 163 Camus, Albert, 3 Canfield, Gae Whitney, 149–50, 151 Certeau, Michel de, 129 Chase, Salmon P., 193 Cheyfitz, Eric, 24, 133, 143–4 Child, Lydia Marie, 197–8 Claeys, Gregory, 54 206 i n de x Commager, Henry Steele, 104 Conway, Moncure Daniel, 66 Cornell, Drucilla, 28, 32 Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de: Letters from an American Farmer, 15, 17–53, 55–6, 98, 102, 110; life of, 17; and Native Americans, 27, 29, 30–4, 51–3, 55; and African Americans , 30, 33–51; mentioned, 2, 57. See also African in the tree; ‘‘back settlers’’ Deane, Silas, 79, 82 Derrida, Jacques, 32, 113, 118–9, 122, 156, 172–3, 176, 178, 179, 181, 183, 184–7, 189– 90, 195–6. See also ‘‘remains, the’’; ‘‘yet-tocome , the’’ Dimock, Wai-chee, 20, 33 Dostoevsky, Fyodor. See The Brothers Karamazov Douglass, Frederick: and oratory, 15, 127–48, 169–70; ‘‘The Heroic Slave,’’ 124–7, 130–2, 137, 146; The Narrative of the Life . . . , 130–4, 139–41, 146, 152, 157; My Bondage and My Freedom, 132, 140–2; and John Brown, 178–81, 186–7; mentioned, 2, 123, 151, 191 Doyle, James P., 188 Drinnon, Richard, 109 Du Bois, W. E. B., 181 Durfee, Harold A., 86–8 Eaglestone, Robert, 164 Eden, America as, 17–8, 23, 30, 35 Edwards, Elizabeth, 160 egology. See Same, the Eiselein, Gregory, 196–8 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 173, 183 Engell, James, 39, 40 Enlightenment rationalism, 19–20, 28, 42, 50, 52, 102, 104–6, 111, 115 ethics: and politics/history, 2, 8, 12–3, 60, 66–7, 69–79, 83–4, 86–90, 92, 93, 145, 182, 184–6, 190, 192, 198; as disruption, 4, 7, 10, 12, 15–6, 20, 32–4, 36–7, 47–9, 52–3, 57, 78, 81, 90, 92–3, 96, 107, 123, 124–30, 133, 136–7, 139, 146, 152, 165–6, 169, 176, 182, 186, 194–6. See also Levinas, Emmanuel Fabian, Johannes, 111 face of the Other, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13–4, 15, 20, 35, 37, 42, 44–9, 52, 62–3, 65, 68, 86–90, 96, 107–8, 119–20, 122–3, 125–6, 129, 132, 134, 136–7, 142, 144–7, 150, 155, 158, 160–1, 163–9, 171, 175–6, 182, 188, 189, 196, 197–8. See also Levinas, Emmanuel Fanon, Franz, 98 Finkelman, Paul, 102–3, 174 Fliegelman, Jay, 119–21 Foner, Eric, 66n Franklin, Benjamin...