Index
academia
126–28, 134–35, 147–53, 162, 178–79
Aicha
71, 72
Alice (character in Submission)
148, 183
Amina
71, 72
animals, human relation to
120
Arendt, Hannah
202
Aristophanes
194
Aristotle
200
Army, French
145
Ash, Timothy Garton
32
Asimov, Isaac
10n21
Atheism
95, 156
Atomised (see Particules élémentaires, Les)
Augustine
211–212n31, 215
Bayrou, François
44–45, 71, 99, 99n35, 144
Ben Abbes, Muhammed (character in Submission)
11, 20, 44–45, 60, 68, 70–71, 100, 101–102, 117, 133, 136, 141, 143–150, 161, 168, 207–10
“Benedict Option”
132
Betty, Louis
4, 64
Bourdieu, Pierre
90, 100
Bourmeau, Sylvie
174
Bouteldja, Houria
58
Breton, Andre
178
Bush, George W.
128
Camus, Albert
90
Carte et le Territoire, Le (The Map and the Territory)
14, 21n35, 162–63
Catholicism
49, 54–55, 95–96, 131–33, 147, 190, 199, 210
internationalism or universalism of
133, 135, 137, 161
censorship
27
Charlie Hebdo
1, 52, 57, 97–98
2015 attack on
1, 4, 30, 41, 55, 97, 143, 153, 173–74
Chirac, Jacques
88
Christianity
15–17, 18, 54, 116, 117, 118–19, 133–34, 153n22, 160, 162, 211, 213–14
Catholicism, Church of England, Eucharist, religion
Church of England
197
colonialism
81–82, 183, 205, 208–9
Comte, Auguste
105, 110–11, 113–14, 117–18
conservativism
91, 92–93, 93n17, 117–18
liberalism, reaction
consumerism
11, 14, 42, 91, 93–94, 163, 165–66, 169–71, 178–79, 180, 184–85, 189
and “hobbies”
202–3, 215
pornography, prostitution, tourism
conversion
12, 36, 37, 49–50, 63, 96, 114, 152, 152n14, 164–65, 190–91, 199, 215
Huysman, Joris Karl; religion
death
106, 182, 188
immortality, technology
decadence
1–4, 9, 12–13, 15, 20, 43, 47, 106–113, 159–71
declinism; Huysmans, Joris-Karl
declinism
18, 24–38, 47, 92, 102, 116–17, 159–171
decadence; pessimism
democracy
38, 92, 153, 156–57, 202
despotism
203, 205
dhimmitude
136, 138–9
distributism
207, 207–8n23, 210
Doudi, Hadi
60
education
45, 146–50
academia
Elementary Particles, The, (see Particules élémentaires, Les)
Enlightenment, the
54–55
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip
149
eros
20, 109, 169–71, 182, 189, 191, 193–216
Eucharist
163, 213
European Union
92, 144–46, 152, 160–61
Evola, Julius
49
Extension du domaine de la lutte (Whatever
) 7–8, 107, 112–13, 115, 169
family
6, 15, 16–17, 33, 75–76, 115, 147, 168, 169–171, 183, 207
feminism; patriarchalism; polygamy, sologamy
Fatima
71, 72
female genital mutilation
72–73
feminism
74–75, 148n8, 168, 170–71
fictionality
37–38, 87, 98, 173–191
friendship
36, 120, 162–63, 164, 177–78, 195, 198–201
Finkielkraut, Alain
24, 32, 32n29, 34–35, 52–53, 91–92, 116, 148n8, 156
Foucault, Michel
97
intellectuals
François (character in Submission)
1–2, 10, 11–12, 35–37, 47, 49–50, 63, 100–101, 114, 130–32, 142, 149, 153–56, 164–66, 168–71, 175–76, 177–91, 198–205
freedom
3, 42
of expression
27, 52, 57, 60, 82, 91n13, 94–95, 98n31, 153
Fromm, Erich
42
Front national See National Front
Guénolé, Thomas
58
Guénon, René
41, 48–49, 54–55, 62, 118
Hamon, Benoit
59
Herbert, Frank
10n22
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
19, 28, 67–82, 128
history
113, 116–17
end of
202–3, 204
messianism and
126
declinism
Hollande, François
56–58, 87, 99, 100, 160
Houellebecq, Michel
biography
7–9
Carte et le Territoire, Le (The Map and the Territory)
14, 21n35, 94, 162–63
Extension du domaine de la lutte, (Whatever)
7–8, 107, 112–13, 115, 169
Particules élémentaires, Les (US title, The Elementary Particles; UK title, Atomised)
7–9, 45–47, 106–7, 109–112, 113, 116–17, 119–20, 194–95, 196, 211n29
Platforme (Platform)
8, 20, 21n35, 27, 45–46, 68, 94–95, 110, 113, 114–15, 143
Possibilité d’une île, La (The Possibility of an Island)
9, 45–47, 94n20, 109–10, 112–13, 115, 115n7, 119–20n26, 177, 194–95, 196–97, 198, 206–7
Serotonin
20–21, 21n35s
Submission (2015 novel): see Submission (2015 novel), characters in
homosexuality
58, 73
humor
178, 180, 195–96
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
1–2, 10, 12–13, 20, 36, 37, 48, 96, 101–102, 130–2, 134, 162–71, 183, 199, 211–14
immigration
33, 34, 69, 72, 74–75, 82, 135
Muslim question
immortality
9, 46–47, 109–10, 111–12
death, religion, technology
intellectuals
90, 91–92, 102, 131
Islam
110, 113, 115–16, 135, 196–97, 206–9, 211, 212–13
Muslim question, Islamism, religion
Islamophobia
8, 27, 43, 45–46, 51, 55, 56, 57, 62–63, 77–78, 79, 81–82, 94–95, 102, 142, 174
Muslim question
Islamism
11, 28, 41–64
Muslim Brotherhood, terrorism
Israel
28, 54, 96–97, 135–39, 145, 155–56, 157
Jewish question
52, 77, 124–25, 135–39, 145, 179–80, 183
and the secular French Republic
57–58, 136–37, 208
Israel; Zionism
Jews
95, 136–39, 147, 159–60
Jewish Question, Judaism
Judaism
126
Kaplan, Robert D.
78–79
Kojève, Alexandre
202–3
Lamont, Michèle
81–82
Laqueur, Walter
32, 34
Leconte de Lisle, Charles Marie René
142
Lempereur, Godefroy (character in Submission)
28, 144, 148, 155–56
Le Pen, Marine
44, 53, 60, 68, 71, 88, 99, 100
Lévy, Bernard-Henri
138
Levy, Jacob
49
Lewis, Bernard
79
liberalism
88–90, 92, 117–18
conservativism, freedom, reaction
Lilla, Mark
33, 42, 152n14, 153n20
literature
36, 160, 163–64, 177–79, 200
Loisleur (character in Submission)
150, 152
love
eros, polygamy
Lovecraft, H. P.
7, 10, 119
Macron, Emmanuel
59, 61–62, 68, 88, 92, 99, 134, 137
Maimonides
126
Manent, Pierre
133–34
Manji, Irshad
73, 76
Map and the Territory, The
Carte et le Territoire, Le
Marx, Karl
202
Mbala Mbala, Diuodonné
63
Mélenchon, Jean Luc
59, 156
Mernissi, Fatima
73–74
Merkel, Angela
33
Mitterand, Francois
209
Montaigne, Michel de
200
mourning
191, 216
Mormonism
197–98n5
multiculturalism
3, 52–53, 57, 59, 61–2, 205
Murakami, Haruki
130
Muslim Brotherhood
11, 160, 168, 206–7
Muslim question
1, 3, 5, 15–17, 18, 25, 29, 34, 41–64, 67–82, 102, 135
islamophobia; Jewish question; terrorism
Myriam, (character in Submission)
54, 135–36, 145, 155, 182, 183–84, 186, 197–98
Naipaul, V. S.
28
Nareen, Tashima
68
National Front (Front National)
28, 43, 44, 55, 58, 59, 60, 62–63, 88, 91n1399, 144, 147, 161, 168, 207
narrative
175–76
nationalism
17–18, 54–55, 61, 124, 156–57, 160–61, 166–67
see also European Union, multiculturalism, populism
nativism
28–29
Nerval, Gérard de
142
Nietzsche, Friedrich
118–19
nihilism
42–43, 93n18, 118, 135, 153, 156, 182, 188, 189, 201–2
Norton, Ann
63
Novak-Lechevalier, Agnes
6–7, 149, 174–75
Obama, Barack
128
Onfray, Michel
156
Orwell, George
86
Particules élémentaires, Les (US title, The Elementary Particles; UK title, Atomised)
7–9, 45–47, 106–7, 109–112, 113, 116–17,
119–20, 194–95, 196, 211n29
Platforme (Platform)
8, 20, 21n35, 27, 45–46, 68, 94–95, 110, 113, 114–15, 143
patriarchalism
28–29, 74, 75–76, 115–16, 135–36, 207, 210
pessimism
15–16, 17, 18, 26
declinism
Plato
194, 195–96, 202, 203, 214
Plenel, Edwy
56
polygamy
47–48, 115, 117, 135–36, 141, 150–58, 170, 195–96, 196–97, 208, 214–15, 216
populism
44, 62, 101, 156–57
pornography
42
consumerism, prostitution
Possibilité d’une île, La (The Possibility of an Island)
9, 45–47, 94n20, 109–10, 112–13,
115, 115n7, 119–20n26, 177, 194–95, 196–97, 198, 206–7
Possibility of an Island, The (see Possibilité d’une île, La)
progress
204–5
Comte, Auguste; reaction; decay
prostitution
94, 115n17, 166, 188–89
consumerism; Platforme
reaction
4, 5, 24–38, 43, 52, 55–56, 88–90, 92–93, 102
Redeker, Robert
28
See also Submission, characters in: Rediger, Robert
religion
8, 9–10, 11–14, 15–17, 19, 27, 63–64, 93, 95–96, 103, 110–11, 113–15, 123–40, 143, 154–55, 163–64, 196–97, 206–9
Catholicism, Christianity, consumerism, Islam, Jewish question, Judaism, Muslim question
Rediger, Robert, (character in Submission)
13–14, 28, 48, 49–50, 63, 114, 117, 145–46, 151–52, 154–55, 161, 171, 180, 190
Rocamadour
48, 95, 164–65, 187
romanticism
106, 193
Roth, Philip
26n8
Roy, Oliver
51, 60–61
Rushdie, Salman
97–98, 98n31
Russia
96–97
Sadawi, Nawal
73–74
Safiya
71, 72
Said, Edward
81
Salafism
60–61, 144
Islamism; Muslim Brotherhood
Sarkozy, Nicolas
80
Sarrazin, Thilo
32, 33, 34, 36
Sartre, Jean-Paul
90
intellectuals
satire
20, 97–98
fictionality
Saudi Arabia
134–5, 147–48
school
119–20
education
Schopenhauer, Arthur
118, 119
Scruton, Roger
197
on Islam
212–13
secularism
45, 53–54, 55–59, 79
religion, secularization
secularization
44, 62, 123
Serotonin
20–21, 21n35
Sieferle, Peter
30, 30–32n28
Smith, Christian
125
Soral, Alain
62–63
Sansal, Boualem
86
sologamy
210–11n29
Sorbonne
academia
Spengler, Oswald
15, 18, 32, 33
declinism
Steve (character in Submission)
150, 152
Story of O, The
171
Submission (2004 film by Theo van Gogh)
19, 28, 67–82
Submission (2015 novel), characters in
Alice
148, 183
Ben Abbes, Muhammed
11, 20, 44–45, 60, 68, 70–71, 100, 101–102, 117, 133, 136, 141, 143–150, 161, 168, 207–10
François
1–2, 10, 11–12, 35–37, 47, 49–50, 63, 100–101, 114, 130–32, 142, 149, 153–56, 164–66, 168–71, 175–76, 177–91, 198–205
Lempereur, Godefroy
28, 144, 148, 155–56
Loisleur
150, 152
Myriam
54, 135–36, 145, 155, 182, 183–84, 186, 197–98
Rediger, Robert
13–14, 28, 48, 49–50, 63, 114, 117, 145–46, 151–52, 154–55, 161, 171, 180, 190
Steve
150, 152
Tanneur, Alain
143–47, 150, 154, 161, 171, 186
Holland, François; Le Pen, Marine
Submission (2015 novel), style of
20
subsidiarity
210
Tanneur, Alain (character in Submission)
143–47, 150, 154, 161, 171, 186
technology
9–10, 10n21, 105, 106n2, 109–10, 111–12, 196
terrorism
8, 19, 27, 29, 31, 41–64, 67–82, 96–97, 128–29, 137, 143–44, 155–56, 168, 185, 203
theopoeisis
10n21
Tocqueville, Alexis de
203, 209, 212, 214
totalitarianism
85–103
Touraine, Alain
74–75
tourism
14, 94, 186
consumerism, Platforme
Trump, Donald
88, 101, 128–29
Union for a Popular Movement
60, 80, 100
United States
67–68, 124, 197–98n5
France and
89, 134
universities
academia
Valeurs actuelles
30
Vaillant, Alain
174, 178
Valls, Manuel
4–5, 56, 98n31, 137, 173–74
Van Gogh, Theo (director of 2004 film Submission)
19, 28, 67–69, 79–80
verisimilitude
87
de Villepin, Dominique
60
Viard, Bruno
6
Warhol, Andrew
165–66
Whatever (see Extension du domaine de la lutte)
Weidenhaun, Artur
174
Wilders, Geert
67, 81
Willkommenskultur
33
Zainab
71, 72
Zemmour, Eric
32, 33–34, 37, 42
Zionism
139
Israel, Jewish question