Difficulties of Ethical Life

Index

Index abstract description, 26 accountability, 5 Aristotle, 132 Hegel, 135 ministers, 135 philosophers and, 132 responsibility and, 131–32 active nihilism, 53 activity, ethical experience as, 56 Adam’s Rib, 95 addiction, 60 Adso of Melk, 18–19 adversaries, 65 ageless myth, 184 aggression Lacan, 74 Sartre, 74 agon, 90 The Philadelphia Story, 107 agreement, life-forms, 29 aimance, Derrida, 93 al-Qaeda, 54 Alcoff, Linda Martin, 177 Allport, Gordon, 148–49 aloneness in public places, 117 America colonial 243 labor force, 156 race and, 155 as innocent victim in 9/11 attacks, 79 message of redemption post 9/11, 76 as nation of innocence after 9/11 attacks, 74 American civil-rights movement, 80 American innocence, myth of, 79 American psyche, myth of, 76 Amnesty International, 190 analyst, threat of the Other and, 74 Anderson, Pamela, 122 Anti-Semite and Jew (Sartre), 176 aperion, 202 applied ethics, 35 Heidegger and, 35–36 approval demands for, 57 equiprimordiality, 58 ethical experience and, 56–57 order, 58 Archive Fever, 205–9 Arendt, Hannah, 7, 195–200, 205 arete, 20, 91 argument, best-grounded, 28 Aristotelian answer to the Socratic question, ethics as, 28 Aristotle accountability, 132 cooperative bonds, 88 empathy, 181 fear, 182 friendship, 91 Gadamer and, 37 human nature, and life-forms, 31 katharsis, 181, 191 muthos-mimesis, 181, 183 Nicomachean Ethics, 37 philosophical ethics and, 28–29 Poetics, 181 virtues, presence, 31 wit, inferior mode of friendship and, 98 Armenian genocide, 192–93 Arnold, Matthew, 104 ashes in myth, 184 assimilation of Native Americans, 160 Augustine, Saint, 132 Awful Truth, The, 95, 98 woman educating man, 101 Badiou, Alain, 4, 61–64 Balzac, Honoré de, 125 Bamber, Helen, 190, 192 Barber, Benjamin, founders’ creation of city on a hill, 76 beautiful soul, morality and, 112 Beauvoir, Simone de, 75, 140 Becket, Samuel, 62 being, questioning, 32 Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 74 Bergoffen, Debra B., 4 Bernasconi, Robert, 5, 131 Bernstein, Jay, 55 best-grounded argument, 28 Bettelheim, Bruno, 184 Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 69 Big Lebowski, The, 109 bin Laden, Osama, 54, 73, 83 Birmingham, Peg, 7, 195 Black Reconstruction, 178 Blanchot, Maurice, 61, 69 Bluest Eye, The, 165 Bobo, Lawrence, 150 bodies as appendages of machines, Marx, 117–18 244 Index Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 151 Book of Invasions, 187 ‘‘Breasted Existence: The Look and the Feeling,’’ 122 Brecht, Bertolt, 182 Bringing Up Baby, 95, 99, 101 brothers, relationship between, 91 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 160 Bush, George W., similarities to Osama bin Laden, 54 capitalism, slavery and, 173–74 Caruth, Cathy, 185 catharsis, 181 Armenian genocide, 192–93 cathartic witness, 192 expression, 182 genocide and, 188 imagination and, 191 myths and, 183 current thought, 184 narration and, 183 Shakespeare, 182 storytelling and, 187 Yeats, 182 Cavell, Stanley, 90 The Awful Truth, marriage as daily festival of contests, 98 childhood theme in films, 100 contract theory and, 109 conversation, marriage and, 97 democracy, spirited relationship between equals, 95 female characters, submissive poses of bondage, 98 feminist critics, 97 friendships in films, 94 heroine, symbolic death and rebirth, 101 incest, 101 Nietzschean themes in films, 98 pair as alike as brother as sister, 99–100 paternal authority, 102 perfectionist themes, 105–6 The Philadelphia Story, 96 conversation in, 96 A Midsummer Night’s Dream and, 106 Pursuits of Happiness, 93 self-knowledge of couple, 104 woman educating man, 101 cell phones, 5, 117–20 chattel servitude, 156 child rearing, marriage and, 96 Christ, 65–66 Christianity, Løgstrup, Knud Ejler, 64, 66 Christ’s resurrection, demand and, 58 City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia), 91 civil rights, Virginia General Assembly, free blacks, 158 closeness, ethics, 113 Coetzee, J. M., The Lives of Animals, 189–91 colonial America labor force, 156 race and, 155 color-blind liberalism, 151 comic ironists, democracy and, 108 comic play, friendship and, 98 comic virtues, 98 companion-style marriage, 107 conduct life-forms, 29 play space, 29 possibilities, withdrawal, 32 conflict, 4 life-forms, 29 conscience, sting of bad conscience, 60 Constant, Benjamin, 134 contract theory, 109 conversation friendship and, Aristotle, 98 marriage and, 97 The Philadelphia Story, 96 Conway, Dan, 88 coyote in myth, 184 creative compensation, child loss and, 186 Critchley, Simon, 3 Critique of Judgment (Kant), 37 Cukor, George, 94 Culture and Anarchy, 104 curvature of intersubjective space, 61, 69 cyberporn, 121–124 Da-sein, 43 Heidegger, 40 Index 245 de-auratized space, 120 death, memory and, 45 deception Arendt...