Lessons in Secular Criticism

Index

Abbas, Sadia, 74 Adams, Suzi, 94, 103n Adorno, Theodor W., 36, 92, 93n Aeschylus, 71, 106 Agamben, Giorgio, 82 Allen, Woody, 74 Alteration, 8, 20, 24–25, 44, 61, 97, 101, 113, 115–16, 152, 157, 159, 177–79 Anaximander, 104, 106–7, 112, 115 Anidjar, Gil, 32 Anti-secularism, 29, 31–33, 46–47, 52, 166 Apter, Emily, 1 Arab Spring, 90, 147, 154, 156–57, 159–67, 179 Aristotle, 21, 25–27, 55–57, 79, 84, 99, 102, 159 Asad, Talal, 13, 15, 18–23, 25, 31, 46, 52n, 53, 65 Assembly movements, xix, 143–47, 154–60, 163, 165, 167–68, 173–75, 177, 179–80; and Occupy Wall Street, 143, 145–47, 154, 156–57, 160, 180 Athanasiou, Athena, 151n, 168n Atheism, 65, 68–69, 72–78, 88–89 Aulagnier, Piera, 125 Autonomy, xviii, 18, 34, 38, 44–45, 50, 56n, 90–92, 95–96, 99, 103, 105–8, 110, 115–17, 136, 144, 163, 176 Autopoiesis, 95–103 Azoulay, Ariella, 179 Bachelard, Gaston, 112 Badiou, Alain, 82, 167 Baltas, Aristides, 75n Barthes, Roland, xi–xv, xx Beckett, Samuel, 78 Belief, 42, 49, 61, 68–75, 78–79, 83 Benjamin, Walter, 49, 78 Bennett, Jane, 24 Bergson, Henri, 11 Blasphemy, 52–54 Blumenberg, Hans, 37 Index 181 182 Index Boltanski, Luc, 20n Bové, Paul, 15n Brecht, Bertolt, xiii, 153 Breckman, Warren, 121n Brown, Wendy, 31, 52n Burke, Edmund, 87 Bush, George W., 33n, 80–81, 145 Butler, Judith, 15–16, 21n, 52n, 53, 60 Capital, xix, 149, 153, 165, 169–72, 175–76; and capitalism, xviii–xx, 40, 93, 132, 146–50, 153–55, 165, 168, 173, 175; and consumerism, xix, 93, 132, 145–46, 149–50, 153, 158, 169n, 173; and modernity, 9, 147; and pre-capitalism, 9; and regulation, xix, 147–50 Cardillo, Gaston, 160n Castoriadis, Cornelius, 40, 44, 59, 71n, 90–119, 122, 123n, 131, 133n, 134, 159; and the ensidic, 100, 102, 106, 109–10, 113–14, 117; and magmas, 102, 104n, 108–14; and ontology, 102–3, 105, 133n; and the sciences, 95, 100–101, 110, 112, 115; and Socialisme ou Barbarie, 94, 122 Christianity, 8, 18–19, 22–23, 29–34, 36, 37n, 38–42, 47, 49, 57, 63, 65, 67–73, 79–82, 84, 121, 139–40; in America, 14, 33, 46 Citizen, 126n, 131, 152, 174, 179–80 Citizenship, 126n, 152, 176–77 Comparative literature, xvii, 1–7, 11 Connolly, William, 61 Consent to power, xix, 45, 93, 132, 134, 153, 157, 161, 162n; withdrawal of, xviii, 132, 144, 158, 161–62, 174–77, 180 Constant, Benjamin, 147 Constituent power, 11, 72, 157–58, 176–77 Constitution, xx, 4, 21, 67, 77, 83, 95, 97, 99, 103, 115–16, 118, 119, 127, 128, 131–32, 134, 136, 159, 172 Cosmological abyss, 77–78, 84–85, 103, 107–8, 117–19, 133n, 136, 142 Creation, 8–9, 20, 25, 26–27, 92, 96, 99, 101–3, 106–7, 109–13, 117–19, 122, 124–25, 133, 157, 159, 179 Critique, xvii, 3, 15–25, 28, 32, 35, 39, 45–46, 54–55, 56n, 58, 60–62, 127–28 Cultural studies, 5n Dawkins, Richard, 68, 76 De Certeau, Michel, 70, 72 Decision, 15–21, 24–25, 42, 60–61, 78, 82–84, 86–87, 116, 148, 150 Democracy, xv, 120–21, 123n, 126–28, 130–34, 136–44, 147, 150–52, 159, 162–63, 168, 174–80; ancient, 16–18, 95, 112, 116, 142–43; radical, xvii, xix–xx, 61, 91–92, 99, 116, 127, 131, 143–44, 146, 155–57, 159–60, 167, 175, 179–80; and totalitarianism, 98, 120, 126, 134–35, 139, 155; and violence, xix, 92, 47, 131, 137, 154, 156–58, 161–62, 164, 167, 174n, 178 Derrida, Jacques, 18 Descartes, René, 23, 24, 34–35, 58 Destruction, xix, 8, 25, 39, 76–77, 102–3, 140, 157, 165, 167 Dialectic, xiii, 17, 25, 33, 40, 51, 78, 93n Douzinas, Costas, 168n During, Simon, 31 Enlightenment, 22, 25, 33, 142 Epistemology, xiii, 1, 3–6, 8, 12, 18n, 25, 35–36, 39–40, 42, 48, 50, 63, 68, 81, 91, 108, 112, 120, 139, 165 Index 183 Eros, 9, 42–43 Ethics, 8, 16, 19–20, 23, 35, 51, 56n, 57, 59, 61, 70, 84, 87, 118, 140, 165 Fanon, Frantz, 52 Fascism, xiii, 38n, 170–71, 175, 178 Finitude, 34, 41, 62, 67, 73, 102–5, 122 Flynn, Bernard, 132n, 134, 135n...