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INDEX
Page numbers refer to the print edition but are hyperlinked to the appropriate location in the e-book.
the Absolute: in the conditioned, 88–89; embodied, 77; principle, 86–87, 89–90; Soloviev on, 84–85, 88–89. See also t
he Negative absolute; the Positive absolute
Absolute idea, Christ as, 80
Absolute knowledge, 18–19, 179
Absolute negation, 195–96
Acosmism, 151–53
Action: assertion in, 46; in The Brothers Karamazov, 66–67; contemplation and, 53; desire and, 121, 306n15; force of, 301n7; freedom and, 31; in history, 219; in identity, 114; objectivity and, 125; as production, 114; as project, 67; random, 57–59; repetition of, 255; thinking and, 30–33, 38–39, 200
Active love, 67
Active man, 75–76
Adjudication, 222–23
Adorno, Theodor, 174
Agamben, Giorgio, 323n23
Agency, human, 259–60
Alexei Nilych Kirillov, 18, 214; on God, 50–53; hesitation of, 54–55, 59; nonsense of, 55; Raskolnikov and, 50–51; Stavrogin and, 56–57; on suicide, 51–56
Anamnesis, 36
Animal desire, 114–16, 120–21, 126–27, 175, 180, 307n17
Animality, 113–16, 118–21, 185; Aristotle on, 218; death and, 312n7; evil and, 263–64; freedom from, 188–89, 203; self-preservation as, 187–89, 195, 278; servitude and, 175. See also Incomplete animal, human as
Anthropotheism, 147–48, 151–52
Antithesis, thesis, 245–46, 329n54
Apophatic man, 75–76
Architecture, 207
Arendt, Hannah, 174, 269, 282–83, 333n6
Aristotle, 93, 150, 152–54, 156, 181–82, 218
Art, 207, 276
the Artist, 23–24
Asceticism, 63–64
Assertion: of absolute, 84; in action, 46. See also self-assertion
Assimilation, 184
Atheism, 145–46, 187
Attempt at a Rational History of Pagan Philosophy (Kojève), 10, 215, 218, 221, 315n33; on dialectic, 244–48; on energology, 248–53; on finality, 237; on history, 232–33, 323n18; on sense, 303n23
Aufheben, 128
Augustine, 83, 260–63, 330n73, 331n10
Authentic, inauthentic modes of existence, 208
Author, implied, 40–41
Authority, 167, 270
Autobiography: of history, 156; of the Sage, 140–48
Badiou, Alain, 258, 293n14, 328n53
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 62, 296n19, 300n26
Bataille, Georges, 294n23
Beauty, 24–26, 57–58, 67–68
Beckett, Samuel, 330n76
Becoming, 149
Being: Dasein and, 274; discursive, 152; post-historical, 205; pure, 150; reason, will and, 85–86
Being-there, 274
the Believer, 143
Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 265, 334n9
Biology, 113–15, 117, 292n13, 323n23
Black Circle (painting), 17
Blind force, nature as, 95
Blumenberg, Hans, 262, 332n11
the Body, 21–22, 77, 100
the Book, 317n5, 318n6; dialectical movement of, 162; in end of history, 173, 177–78, 189, 198; equilibrium in, 179; in freedom, 188–89; human being into, 179; Kojève on, 157, 160–65, 213; Logos of, 197–98; as narrative, 194; struggle in, 198; time and, 181–82; as wisdom, of the sage, 161–62, 171, 204
Boredom, 59–60, 300n24
Borges, Jorge Luis, 228–29, 298n41
Bourgeois, 9–10, 75, 226, 277
Brandom, Robert, 205
Breakdown, 209–12
Brotherhood, 74, 96–97. See also “On the Problem of Brotherhood” (Fedorov)
Brotherhood, of humankind, 95
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 62, 66–67, 173. See also Father Ferapont; “Grand Inquisitor, The”; Ivan Karamazov; Zosima
Buddhism, 2–3, 79
Bureaucracy, 270–71
Capitalism, 271
Certainty: repetition and, 229; subjective, 125, 235–36
Christ, 63–64, 68, 76; as Absolute idea, 80; cruelty of, 282–84; death of, 136, 168–69, 287; fear and, 281; Fedorov of, 99; God as, 100, 145–46; in human being, 93; Kojève on, 145–47; as mediating element, 80–81; overcoming death, 96, 99; as perfect humanity, 87–88; Plato and, 76–77, 80, 99
Christianity, 23, 42; on agency, 260; of the common task, 96; Dostoevsky on, 65; Eastern, 85; emancipation in, 168–69; filial piety of, 96; Hegel on, 185–86; Kojève on, 145, 185–86, 259–60; philosophy of, 251–52; as Platonism, 146–47, 159; resurrection in, 53, 123–24, 277; self-consciousness of, 146–47; Soloviev on, 77–80; theology of, 145–48; world of, 319n13. See also God
Christology, 291n7
Circularity, 157, 196–97, 254, 321n38
Citizen, 138, 188
City of God, 93
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud), 169
Closed logic, 42–43
Cognition, 83
Collective awareness, self-consciousness in, 140–41
Collective freedom, 174
Collective identity, 136–37
Collective self-interest, 275
Commentary: emancipation and, 107; interpretation and, 106; of Kojève, 106–10, 118, 127–28; philosophical theory from, 107–8
the Common task, 92–99
Communal identity, 264
Completion: of history, 166; Kojève on, 148–49, 154, 165–66, 230; of philosophy, 159–60; of self-consciousness, 198. See also Perfection
the Concept: in discourse, 238; eternity and, 149–50, 152, 246; evolution of, 237–39; as history, 154–56; Kant on, 152–53; knowledge and, 249–50; nature and, 249; notion of, 328n41; recognition of, 157; sense and, 247; temporalizing, 148–60, 251; time and, 148–60, 193–94, 237, 249
Concept, Time, and Discourse, The (Kojève), 231
Conceptual horizon, 183–84
the Conditioned, 88–89
Conquest, 121, 130
Consciousness, 122; the concept, time and, 150; forms of, 150–51; in master-slave relation, 140–41; as process, of unification, 330n66; public aspect of, 140–41; social, 139. See also Self-consciousness
Consumer capitalism, 8–9
Contemplation, action and, 53
Content, form and, 206
Contributions to Philosophy (Heidegger), 229–30
Corbin, Henry, 111
Correctness, 38
Correspondence model, of truth, 268
Creatio ex nihilo, 211
Creativity, 210–12, 248
Creator, God as, 123–24
Crime, 45–46; individuality and, 202; madness and, 49; negation and, 59
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), 45, 50. See also Raskolnikov
the Crystal Palace, 202–3, 273
Dasein, 111–12, 208, 267, 274. See also Being; Human
Death, 93, 96, 98–99; as absolute master, 136; acceptance of, 169, 284–85; of animal, 312n7; authority of, 167; of Christ, 136, 168–69, 287; conquest of, 130; elimination of, 333n4; emancipation from, 136; enactment of, as wisdom, 171; fear and, 136–37, 175, 281; freedom and, 186–87, 281; God and, 135–36; Hegel on, 168, 177, 187, 194; identity in, 139; of man, as end of history, 170–71; nature, truth and, 168; as negation, 194–95; overcoming fear of, 136–37; site of, 288–89; slave and, 281, 287; struggles to, 121–22, 125–26; wisdom, as acceptance of, 281, 316n43; of Zosima, 65–66
Decision, 158–59
Deification, 84; Kojève on, 147–48; of masses, 147; Soloviev on, 71–72, 85–87
Democritus, 248–49
Demons (Dostoevsky), 18. See also Alexei Nilych Kirillov; Pyotr Stepanovich; Stavrogin
Denial, 258–59
Derrida, Jacques, 108–9, 307n22
Desire: action and, 121, 306n15; animal, 114–16, 120–21, 126–27, 175, 180, 307n17; as birth of the human, 111–19; defining, 112–13; as dissatisfaction, 116; human and, 115–20, 126–27, 175; negation and, 113, 115, 154–55, 162; object of, 116, 121, 175, 309n47; for otherness, 120–21, 127; plurality of, 118; for recognition, 122; in self, 113–14; self-consciousness and, 111, 307n27, 309n33; for self-preservation, 120, 126; of value, 120–21
Destiny, 210, 277
Detachment, 175–76
Dialectic, 244–48, 312n8
Dialectical reason: freedom and, 38–43; Kojève on, 38, 116–17; negation in, 118
Dialectical restlessness, 116
Dialectic movement, 162
Difference, 184
Disclosure, 268
Discourse: the concept in, 238; in end of history, 244; Hegelian, 19, 27; philosophical, 182–83, 238–40; reality and, 179, 250; sense in, 243–45; of slave, 284; of the underground man, 31
Discursive being, 152
Disequilibrium, 134–35. See also Equilibrium
Dissatisfaction, 116, 202
Divine humanity, 148–60. See also Lectures on Divine Humanity (Soloviev)
Divine madness, 21, 23–24, 44, 64, 68–69
Divinity, the human and, 65–66, 80–81, 89. See also Godmen; Lectures on Divine Humanity (Soloviev)
Dogma, 7–8, 108–9, 175, 265
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 267, 291n7, 327n34; on action, thinking, 32; The Brothers Karamazov by, 62, 66–67, 173; on Christianity, 65; Demons by, 18; on erōs, 68; on freedom, 27–28, 61–62, 273–74; Kojève and, 5–9, 18–19, 32, 50, 292n9; on madness, 49; on reason, will, 70–71; on will, 67–68. See also Alexei Nilych Kirillov; Crime and Punishment; Father Ferapont; “Grand Inquisitor, The”; Notes from Underground; Raskolnikov; Stavrogin; the underground man; Zosima
Dualist ontology, 310n51
Eastern Christianity, 85
Eccentricity, 106
Egoism, 274–75
Either/Or (Kierkegaard), 296n22
Elements of a Philosophy of Right (Hegel), 215, 220
Emancipation, 27, 70–71, 107, 209; in Christianity, 168–69; from death, 136; in history, 153; individuality in, 173–74; in modernity, 176; narrative, 180, 254, 256; of the sage, 181; of slave, 136–38, 171; suicide as, 257–58; total, 173. See also Freedom
Embodied absolute, 77
Empire. See Rome; Universal empire
Empiricism, 252
Emptying out, 169
End of history, 78, 109, 166–67; the Book in, 173, 177–78, 189, 198; as death of man, 170–71; discourse in, 244; Kojève on, 5–7, 139, 142, 159–60, 164–65, 178–80, 190; rationality in, 324n1; repetition and, 196–97, 199; the sage in, 177–78, 214, 255; slave in, 171–72, 280
End of the political, 223