and, 219 ; empiricism and, 99 ;on
experience, 42 ; Foucault and, 66 ,
68 ; on geometry, 41 – 46 , 65 ;on
historicity, 121 ; humanism and,
134 ; Lévinas and, 124 , 125 – 26 ; life
and career, 37 ; logocentrism and,
7 , 8 , 36 , 54 ; Marxist view of, 70 ;
on meaning, 47 , 49 – 56 ;meta-
physics and, 53 , 54 ; Nazism and,
213 ; on origins and perception,
117 ; Sartre and, 2 – 3 , 5 , 26 – 27 ;on
science, 38 – 40 , 45 – 46 ; study of
philosophy and, 157 ; truth sought
by, 40 – 41 ; voice and, 116
Hyppolite, Jean, 69 , 93
hysteria, 105
id (Freudian concept), 132
idealism, German, 128
idealism, Neoplatonic, 59
identity, 3 , 25 , 28 – 29 , 247
imagination, 6 , 42
incest taboo, 95 – 96
indication, 49 – 51 , 52 , 53 , 56
The Interpretation of Dreams
(Freud), 113 , 175
Iranian revolution, 133
Irigaray, Luce, 171
Israel, state of, 236 – 37 , 256 – 57 n 9
iterability (repetition), 56 , 160
“It Must Change” (Stevens), 35
Jabès, Edmond, 37 , 64 , 115 , 116 ,
120 – 23 , 139
Jameson, Fredric, 227
Jan Hus Association, 184
Jeremiah (biblical prophet), 119
“The Jews and Contemporary Lit-
erature” (de Man), 194 , 203 – 7
Jews and Judaism, 6 , 17 , 25 , 65 , 139 ,
256 n 6 ; in Algeria, 15 – 18 , 20 ;
Arab–Israeli conflict and, 237 ,
256 – 57 n 9 ;ethics of, 128 , 129 ;
European culture and, 193 , 194 ,
203 , 204 ; Freud and, 21 , 104 , 110 ,
236 , 252 n 8 ; Hellenized, 127 ; his-
tory and, 120 – 22 ; Holocaust de-
nial and, 236 ; Husserl and, 37 , 38 ;
invention of writing and, 110 – 11 ;
Jewish friends of de Man, 198 ;
messianic justice, 222 – 23 ; Nazi
onslaught against, 124 , 192 , 202
(see alsoShoah); Talmudic ques-
tioning, 122 – 23 .See alsoanti-
Semitism; Bible, Hebrew
Johns Hopkins Sciences of Man
symposium, 49 , 93 – 95 , 100 , 102
Johnson, Barbara, 194 – 95
Jospin, Lionel, 25
Joyce, James, 47 – 48 , 60 , 121 , 172
Judt,Tony, 133
justice, 7 , 35 , 42 , 81 , 155 , 188 ; decon-
struction and, 221 – 23 ; hospitality
and, 231 , 232 – 33 ; Marxism and, 229Kafka, Franz, 184
Kamuf, Peggy, 226
Kant, Immanuel, 30 , 59 , 187 , 223
Kaplan, Alice, 205 – 6
Kerrigan, William, 85
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 133
Kierkegaard, Søren, 141
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 131
Klossowski, Pierre, 101 – 2 , 166
knowledge: absolute or pure, 30 ,
152 ; accessibility of, 166 – 67 ; beauty
and, 146 ; desire in conflict with,
144 – 46 ; everyday life and, 44 – 45 ;
Freud as prophetic figure and,
111 ; incest taboo and, 96 ; scienti-
fic, 40 ; therapeutic process and,
179Index 265