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Abraham, 235 absurdity of existence, 48–50 abyss, 240–46, 250–51 activity and passivity, 109. See also passivity Adorno, Theodor, 232 Africanness. See composite culture Algeria, 238–39 alienation, 47, 58, 61–63, 65–67, 69–70, 76–78, 100, 195–96, 275–76n9 Alliance Israelite Universelle (AIU), 209, 210, 212 alterity, 93, 117–24, 276n14; applied ethics and, 127–28; consciousness and, 117–19; feminine, 146; identity and, 32; law and, 119–22; as normativity, 114–25; speech and, 180–81; subject’s dependency on, 42; as theme of Totality and Infinity, 106, 113; welcome of, 197–201. See also infinity/ infinite; Other/other animals, 64–65 anonymity, 47 Anscombe, G. E. M., 86 antihumanism, 224 Antillanité, 239. See also Glissant, Édouard Arendt, Hannah, 174, 232, 234, 265, 291n16 Aristotle, 12–13, 18, 224 ashen memory. See Shoah assimilation of European Jews, 212, 215, 217 assistance (assister à), 204 asymmetry, ethical, 40, 51–52, 57, 76, 113, 124, 154–56, 158, 165, 170, 190 atheism of philosophy, 196 Augustine of Hippo, 274n12 Auschwitz, 210 Austin, J. L., 79 autochthony, 21 autonomy, 42, 52, 102, 106, 193, 197 Autre, Autrui. See Other/other Balzac, Honoré de, 83–85, 101–02 Baudelaire, Charles, 14 becoming, 13, 244 behaviorism, 136 Being/being, 13, 22, 98–99, 229–30, 261–62, 267; death and, 279n34; as inspiring horror and shame, 20; transcendence and, 258; transparency of, 18–19; as war, 258 beloved, 41, 46–47 303 INDEX Benjamin, Walter, 246 Bernasconi, Robert, 177–78, 193–94n7 Bhabha, Homi, 249 Bible, 179, 220. See also Torah body. See embodiment boredom, 12–16, 18, 20–26, 273–74n8 bound, 107, 119 Brandom, Robert, 124–25, 285n23 Brennan, Sir Gerard, 164 Brooks, Peter, 81–91, 94, 96–97, 101–02; Melodramatic Imagination, The, 81–86, 88 capital, 61 capitalism, 60 care/care-giving, 44, 55, 93; ethics of, 128–36, 141, 144–45, 147–52; reciprocity of, 141. See also nursing Caribbean and Caribbeanness, 230–31, 239–40, 244, 248–51 catastrophe, 228–52 catechism, 213 categorical imperative, 176, 225 Cavell, Stanley, 79–83, 86–91, 93–94, 96–97, 101–03, 132–33; Contesting Tears, 81, 86–89; Pursuits of Happiness, 86 Césaire, Aimé, 247, 251 chaos. See Glissant, Édouard child, 189, 220, 260 children and parents, 42–45, 220–23, 236–38, 278n24, 294n9 chosenness, 237 class societies, 59 cogitum and cogitatio, 108 colonialism and anticolonialism, 229–31, 238–39, 241, 244, 247, 250–52 comedies of remarriage, 86, 89, 282–83n16 command, 50, 110–16, 119–24, 146–50, 190, 261; as aspect of face, 31, 103, 141–42, 154–56, 184, 225, 255; as violence, 278n29. See also face commerce between self and other, 47, 74 commodity fetishism, 67–68 common law, 163–64, 166, 169 communism, 62, 76 community, 59, 69, 172–74, 181–82, 186–87 composite culture, 241–46, 250 comprendre, 243–44 concretization of transcendence. See deformalization of transcendence 304 Index conscience, 148, 231, 261–62 consciousness, 108–19, 121–22, 124; directionality of, 115–16; as feasible, 110; as intentionality, 108–09; moral, 261–62, 284n14; of other, 284n9; structure of, 111–12 constructive ethics, 128, 135–36, 140 correlation between act and object, 109–13, 116 cost and benefit, 161–62 creolization, 246, 250–52 Crusoe, Robinson, 219 cultural loss, 237–38, 241 curvature, 247–48, 250 Dasein, 21, 143, 273–74n8 Deane, Sir William, 164 death, 19–20, 48–49, 267, 279n34 deconstruction, 86 dehumanization, 138 Deleuze, Gilles, 27, 244, 290n14 Derrida, Jacques, 85, 155, 157–58, 165–66, 169, 278n29; “Force of Law,” 165; “Violence and Metaphysics,” 2, 165 Descartes, René, 25, 37–38, 87, 189, 191, 193, 195, 200, 258 desire, 49–51, 53–55, 70–73, 76, 267; command and, 115, 277n18; for the infinite, 36–40, 54, 277n; ipseity and, 45; metaphysics and, 276–77n17; responsibility and, 75, 168; revealing of other, 38–39; of subject, 29–31; transcending egoism, 70; transcending subject, 36, 92. See also intentum Deucalion, 181, 291n20 Diderot, Denis, 84 difference, 237 dignity, 31, 39, 40, 42, 44–45, 50–51, 53, 63, 141, 275n9 dire. See speech discourse, 49, 92, 113, 189, 198, 219 divine command theory, 88 drown memory, 240–41, 245–47, 250–51 duty, 183; of care, 153–70; to multiple others, 157–59, 161–62; suspicion of, 234 dwelling. See home Eagleton, Terry, 66 Ecclesiastes, 14 École Normale Israélite Orientale (ENIO), 209–12, 226, 272n8 economic world, 47, 53, 61...