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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

 

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