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i n de x Abitur (Benjamin), 16 Abstand (interval), 64, 66, 205 abstinence, 22 activism, student, 21, 23 activity, 28, 209 actuality, 29, 218 ad hominem, 149–51, 159, 161, 288n30 Adorno, Gretel. See Karplus, Gretel Adorno, Theodor W., vii, viii, 7, 180– 81, 230, 233 Aeschylus, 90, 99–100, 144 aesthetics: performance and, 209; satisfaction in, 109; science of, 99, 143; Socratism, 90 aestheticism, 76, 78, 112, 275n9 Aesthetics of the Tragic (Volkelt), 75 “Afformative, Strike” (Hamacher), 294n1, 295n2 afterlife, 210 Against the Writer David Strauss (Nietzsche), 127 L’Age d’homme (Leiris), 255 agon, 79, 218 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 21 allegory, 84, 87–89, 204, 226 ambiguity, 79 American Revolution, 12 Amtliches Lehrgedicht (Scholem, Gershom), 130 anachronism, 64, 192, 211–13, 217–18, 246, 275n9 analytical formalism, 104 Anders, Günther, 297n6 “André Gide: La porte étroite” (Benjamin), 56 antagonism, 14, 197, 218; class, 222; temporalities, 26 Antebellum youth movement debates, 22 The Antichrist (Nietzsche), 153–54, 211, 284n13 anti-Dreyfusards, 220 antihumanism, 49 anti-Semitism, 127, 220, 256 aphorisms, 26 Apollo, 76, 90, 109, 144–45, 200 Apparat, 187 The Arcades Project (Benjamin), viii, 71, 205, 219, 223, 227–29, 231– 33, 235, 245, 264n5, 268n17, 269n21, 270n23, 278n20, 287n20 “Archimedean point,” 76, 101 Arendt, Hannah, 191, 223, 243 ark, metaphor of, 181–82 art, 36–37, 44, 53, 143–44; criticism of, 72; of science, 152; theory, 271n31 artists, 37, 47 l’art pour l’art, 44 ascent, 14, 197 asceticism, 158 Aschheim, Steven, 19, 266n5 astronomy, 36 As You Like It (Shakespeare), 83 asyndeton, 146, 155–61, 176f., 205, 280n29 atheism, 235 Athos and the Atheists (Benjamin), 287n22 atonement, 77 Attempt at a Revaluation of All Values (Nietzsche), 284n13 Attic tragedies, 76, 82 audience, 209 Aufgabe, 211; endlose, 87 aura, 6, 65, 245, 250 das Ausdruckslose. See the expressionless Ausland, 123 Austin, Albert, 255 Austin, J. L., 295n2 “The Author as Producer” (Benjamin), 186, 188 Index 312 authority, 20, 35, 117–18, 127, 164, 177, 215; dependent, 216; of original, 213–14; of performance, 209; political, 206; of translation, 212; of university, 138 Autrui (Levinas), 58 awareness, 32, 143, 144 Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 133 Badiou, Alain, 292n1 Bailyn, John Fred, xi–xii “The Ball” (Benjamin), 25 ballad stanza, European, 13 Balzac, Honoré de, 232 baptism, 55, 57 barbarism, 244 Baroque drama, 96 Baroque Trauerspiel, 74 Baudelaire, Charles, 8, 141–42, 209, 212, 228, 269n21 Bayreuth, 19, 112, 120–22, 126–27 Bayreuth Horizon Observations (Nietzsche), 120 beam, 30 beauty, 57; truth and, 108 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 215 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 130 Belmore, Herbert. See Blumenthal, Herbert “Benjamin, Nietzsche, et l’idée de l’éternel retour” (Moses), x “Benjamin und Nietzsche” (Pfotenhauer), ix Benjamin, Dora (sister), 181, 243 Benjamin, Dora née Kellner (wife), 195 Bentley, Richard, 147 Bergman, Henry, 256 Bergson, Henri, 287n25 Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Benjamin), 14 Berlin Chronicle (Benjamin), 51, 53 Bernoulli, C. A., 5, 116, 179, 236 Berufsverschwörer, 223 Beyle, Marie-Henri. See Stendhal Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 5, 115, 129, 157, 163, 169, 172 The Bible, 213, New Testament, 111, 116, 200 Bildungsroman, 54 birthday celebration, 55 The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche), viii, 75–76, 96, 99–102, 142–44 Blanqui, Auguste, 71, 233–34, 244 blessings, 154 Blondel, Eric, 267n12 Blumenthal, Herbert, 23, 28, 43, 52, 54, 60, 270n22 Body- and Image-Space: Rereading Walter Benjamin (Weigel), 268n17 Bolshevism, 247 Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon “Boredom, Eternal Return (Benjamin), 234 bourgeois: cultural history, 230; society, 223, 234 Brandes, Georg, 126 Brecht, Bertolt, 6, 7, 187, 222, 224–25, 227 British Museum, 136 Brothers Grimm, 184 Brutus, Lucius Junius, 202 Buber, Martin, 33, 38, 39 Büchner, Georg, 184 Buddhism, 273n39 Burckhardt, Jacob, 161, 292n40 Caesar, 202–7 Caesarism, 247 cafés, 30 Calderón, Pedro de la Barca, 83, 87, 167 capitalism, 162–65, 247, 260 “Capitalism as Religion” (Benjamin), 162–165, 292n41 caricature, 238–40 Cartesian theater, 31 The Case of Wagner (Nietzsche), 5 catastrophe, 67, 261 catatonia, 2, 3 Catholicism, 220, 271n31 “Central Park” (Benjamin), 223, 237, 261 Chaplin, Charlie, 255–58, 261, 300n4 childhood, of Benjamin, 14, 16 Christ, Jesus, 111, 112, 201 Christianity, 49, 156, 189, 273n39; Catholicism, 220, 271n1; JudeoChristian culture, 201; Passion, 80; Protestantism, 271n31 The Circus (film), 261 classical heritage, 274n5 class struggle, 221 coeducation, 22 coffeehouses, 30 Cohen, Hermann, 67 Cohn, Jula, 29, 195 collaboration, 223 collective logic, 143 collective response, 208 collective silence, 277n18 collective singular nouns, 185 collective unconscious, 230 [3.17.5...

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