Past Imperfect(Judt), 133
Paul, St., 127
perception, 27 , 37 , 38 , 42 , 106 , 107 – 8
Phaedrus(Plato), 3 , 73 , 88 , 111 , 142 ,
157 ; charioteer myth in, 143 ,
144 – 45 , 147 , 153 , 252 n 1 ; Derrida’s
essay on, 141 ; on divided soul,
144 – 46 ; on philosophy versus
sophist rhetoric, 154 – 55 ;on
speech as writing, 149 – 54 ;on
writing, 148 – 49
phallogocentrism, 8 , 32
phenomenology, 2 – 3 , 12 ; etymol-
ogy, 38 ; experience and, 82 ;
Husserlian, 26 – 27 , 59 , 63 , 126 ;
ideal objectivity and, 45 ; Lévi-
Strauss’s rejection of, 89 ; Marxist
view of, 70 ;shared world of
experience and, 39
Phenomenology of Mind [Spirit]
(Hegel), 30 – 31 , 55 , 128 , 131 , 134
Phillips, William, 197
philology, 79 – 80
“Philosopher’s Hell” interview,
214 – 15
philosophy: analytical (Anglo-
American), 157 , 164 ; beauty of,
146 ; Cartesian revolution, 67 ;
Continental, 157 – 58 , 164 ;Der-
rida’s introduction to, 18 ;as
erotic art, 147 , 155 ; ethics and,
5 – 6 ; failure to confront experi-
ence, 89 ; Hegelian dialectic, 134 ;
history of ideas and, 30 ; human
voice and, 78 ; legal, 223 ; limits of,
1 ; literature and, 47 – 48 , 60 ;out-
side “other” to, 12 , 63 , 115 , 216 ;
Plato as father of, 141 – 42 ; politics
and, 131 , 228 ; pre-Socratic, 159 ;
psychology and, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 10 , 29 ;
religion and, 125 ; Stoic, 172 ;vio-
lence and, 125 ; writing privileged
over speech, 76
Philosophy in a Time of Terror,
237 – 39
phonemes, 33
pieds-noirscolonists, 14 – 15 , 18 , 19 , 21
Pierce, C. S., 83
Pirke Avot, 123
Plato, 59 , 102 , 129 , 181 , 252 – 53 n 1 ;
absolutes and, 141 ; Derrida’s cri-
tique of, 140 ; desire for beauty
and permanence, 174 ; on divided
psyche/soul, 3 , 145 ; episteme con-
cept, 34 ; as father of philosophy,
179 ; on geometrical truth, 45 ;
Greek philosophy and, 141 – 42 ;
history of ideas and, 30 ;letters
of, 142 , 173 ; logocentrism and, 7 ,
8 , 79 , 164 ; on mathematics, 46 ;
metaphysics and, 141 ;perfection
as ideal of, 151 – 52 ; as precursor of
Freud, 143 ; psychology and, 29 ,
246 ; Socrates and, 172 , 173 ;on
sophistic rhetoric versus philoso-
phy, 147 – 48 ; on speech and writ-
ing, 149 , 152
“Plato’s Pharmacy,” 71 , 73 , 141 , 144 ,
148
play, 65 , 98 , 101 ; free, 5 , 6 , 9 ; mean-
ing and, 63
“A Plea for Excuses” (Austin), 159
Poggioli, Renato, 197 , 198 , 208
The Political Unconscious(Jameson),
227
politics, 12 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 215 , 226 ;
avant-garde ( 1960 s), 60 – 61 ;
Communist, 94 ; Derrida’s rela-
tion to, 70 , 100 , 213 , 216 – 18 ;
Marxist, 44 ;May 1968 revolt and,Index 269