Beauvoir, Simone de, 26
Being, 95 , 98 , 118 , 122 , 231 ;“active
forgetting” of, 169 ; language
and, 135
Being and Time(Heidegger), 38 ,
86 , 135
ben Bag Bag, Rabbi, 123
Beyond Good and Evil(Nietzsche),
166
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
(Freud), 174 – 78
Bible, Hebrew, 64 , 65 , 109 – 14 , 115 ,
119 – 20 ; division within God,
121 – 22 ; Exodus, 110 ; Ezekiel,
112 – 13 ; Genesis, 119 , 232 ; Greek
philosophy and, 127 – 28 ;Num-
bers, 112 – 13 ; Song of Songs, 106 ;
Torah, 125
Blanchot, Maurice, 25 , 115 , 117 – 18 , 120
Blindness and Insight(de Man), 193 ,
198 – 200 , 251 n 3
Bloom, Harold, 9 , 114 , 192 – 93 , 227 ,
252 n 8
The Book of Questions(Jabès), 120 ,
122 – 23
Borradori, Giovanna, 237 , 257 n 12
Breton, André, 30 , 31
Breuer, Josef, 105
Brower, Reuben, 197
Burke, Kenneth, 116
Burt, Ellen, 195
“Cambridge affair,” 225 – 26
Camus, Albert, 13 , 22
capitalism, 16 , 213 , 230 , 256 n 5
capital punishment, 233 , 234
Cardozo Law School lecture, 23 ,
220 – 23 , 230 , 235 , 239
Casaubon, Isaac, 80
Cavell, Stanley, 160 , 162 , 198
Celan, Paul, 184 , 188 – 90 , 242 , 246
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 206
Cérisy-la-Salle symposium, 165 , 168
Charles X, king of France, 13 – 14
Chateaubriand, François de, 20
China, 77 , 233 – 34 , 237
Chinese language,ideograms of,
77 , 83
Chomsky, Noam, 198 , 236 , 250 n 7
Christianity, 37 , 57 , 169 – 70
“Circumfession,” 219
Cixous, Hélène, 171 , 241
class struggle, 229
close (slow) reading, 197
“Cogito and the History of Mad-
ness” lecture, 66 – 69 , 120
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, 130
Cold War, 27 , 219 , 228
Coleman, Ornette, 242
Communism, 27 , 98 ; in Bulgaria,
94 ; in Czechoslovakia, 184 ; defeat
in Cold War, 228 ; fall of, 217 , 219 ,
220 ; French Communist Party,
26 , 70 ; French intellectuals and,
156 , 213 ; messianism of, 100 ; Nazi
war against Bolshevism, 212 ;
reeducation camps, 142 ;Sartre
and, 132 ; Stalin’s regime, 124 .See
alsoMarxism
Communist Manifesto(Marx and
Engels), 228
Confessions(Rousseau), 92
consciousness, 1 , 36 , 161 ; face-to-
face encounter with other and,
124 ; inner mental life, 50 – 54 ;lo-
gocentrism and, 34 ; meaning of,
39 ; phenomenology and, 26 ; sci-
entific, 43 ; undivided, 28 ; validity
of, 37
contingency, 34 – 35 , 36 , 38260 Index