Index
Adam
69
Adorno, T.W.
81, 94
Alienation
98
Anthropological turn, Kant and Marx
71, 78
Anti-semitism
84â86
Archai
29
Arendt, H.
27
the Social Question
31
concept of judgment
32, 35
the âright to have rightsâ
59
concepts of dasein, and natality
63, 69
Aristotle
26, 36, 110, 148, 157
Asymmetrical reciprocity
52, 53
contemporary of women
53, 68, 69
Augustine, Saint
122, 123, 124, 125, 142
Confessions
157
Auschwitz
35, 47, 49
essence of
81â82
modern technology
84â85
imagination
86, 146
Bacon, F.
157
Bauman, Z.
40
Beauvoir de, S.
110
Beethoven, L.
44
âBeing in the Worldâ
27
Benjamin, W.
94, 57
Bible
52, 78, 130
biblical stories
131
Bildung
87â89, 93
Biopolitics
59
Buchenwald
81
Caesar, J.
124
Calvinist
45
Care (the concept and meaning of)
62
(as responsibility)
62
(emotional involvement)
63
(il cura)
64
(care of oneself)
65
Castoriadis, C.
118
Celan, P.
85â86
Christ, statue
86
Cicero
96
Cohen, H. Religion out of the Sources of Judaism
132
Collingwood, R.G.
36
Communism
27
(party)
30
the final goal
72, 115, 118
Condorcet, de A-N.
36, 118, 157
Cusanus, N.
71
Da Vinci, L.
75
Last Supper
76
Delphi
74
Democracy, (greatest modern threat to)
40
Declaration of Independence
44
rights of citizens
52, 54
as permissions or obligations
53
as aliens and strangers
53, 55
denial of right in a totalitarian society
53
welfare rights
54, 55
property rights
5
right to education
54
civic liberties
54
rights to dignity, respect and life
54, 58
denial of rights to future generations
55, 61
Derrida, J.
90
Descartes, R.
26, 142
(Cartesianism)
63
Doomsday
28
Dostoevsky, F.
69
Dreams
122â127
Einstein, A.
92
Enlightenment
7
men of
71, 130
Equality
89
(equal opportunity)
91
Eternity
157
Euro-centrism
41
Evil
86
Fallibility
3, 32â34
First World War
8, 35, 47
Foucault, M.
63
souci de soi and The History of Sexuality
66, 68
to âcare for the otherâ
67, 116
Fourier, C.
75
Freia
83
Freud, S. Civilisation and Its Discontents
51, 116, 123, 162
Fricka
83
Fundamentalist/ism
27
fundamental ontology, Dasein
63, 85
God
69, 71
and Kant
72
as perfect
73, 83, 123, 131â132, 157
Goethe, W.
75, 126
Good Life
59, 60
Gramsci, A.
115
Gulags
35, 49
Gutes Lebenswandel
133
Habermas, J.
40
Hegel, G.W.F.
36, 38, 87, 89n55, 60, 115â16, 120, 132, 157
Heidegger, M., Being and Time
63
discussion of care
64
concept of âthrownnessâ
63
âready to handâ
64
the âTheyâ
65, 66
for perfectio
67, 94, 99â104
Hellenism
44
Heller, A. Everyday Life
65
Hitler
83
Holocaust
81â84
Home, (meaning of)
43, 48, 51
Homo Sapien
159
Human Rights
35, 36
(as constructs)
37
(Declaration of Human Rights)
39
(need to institutionalise)
39
(of children)
52, 84â85
Humankind, as an empirical universal
48
Hume, D.
96
Husserl, E.
94, 99, 123
Ibsen
83
Ideologies
7, 30
(as domination)
38, 84
Imperfection
71â75
perfection as imperfection
77
Infinity, opposite of finitude
157
intensive finitude
159
Intergenerational justice
56, 58, 61
International Court
55
Islamism
27
Ius supplicationis
53, 55
Jesus
81, 83
Jung, C.
125, 127
Justice, contestations of
30â31
golden rule of
57
Kant, I.
32
concept of judgment
32
transcendental
36
universal humankind
45, 48
perpetual peace
48, 55
primacy of freedom
59
Kant and perfection
71â74
controversy with Mendelsohnn
75, 78, 116
Kantian (a priori)
123
(free will)
132, 141â42
Kertesz, I. Faithless and Holocaust as Culture
81
Critique of Practical Reason
132â4
Kierkegaard, S., âexistential choiceâ
75â76, 98â99, 132, 141, 148, 157
the Sublime
160â163
Towards Perpetual Peace
161
Koestler, A.
92
Kolakowski, L.
115
Korsch, C.
115
Kuhn, T.
92
Leibniz, G.W.
26
âbest possible worldâ
73â74
his God
77, 108, 110, 159
Lessing, G. History of the Education of Mankind
130
Lex lata
44
Liberty, meaning of
30
freedom of expression
30
free choice
141â149
Locke, J.
108, 110
Lukacs, G., the young
66
Lumen Naturale
130â131
Luther, M.
45, 147
Mann, T. The Law
82
Markus, G.
94
Marrano
45
Marx, K.
17, 48, 115â121
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
7
Meister Eckhardt
7
Memory, cultural
35
collective
85
personal
108, 110
Mencius
52
Mendelsohnn, M.
71â72
controversy with Kant
75, 78, 132, 157
Milky Way
158
Modernity, Holocaust
84
technology
84
Moliere, J-B.P., Misanthrope
33
Montaigne, de M.
97
Moses, by Michaelangelo
86
Mother Teresa
146
Mozart, L.
44
Multi-culturalism
49
Nationalism, European
45
triumph of national ideologies
46
Natural laws
44
Natural rights
44, 54
Nazism
27, 83â84
Nemes-Jeles, A. The Son of Saul
81
Nietzsche, F.
75, 116, 122, 124, 125, 147
Nihilism
84â85
Noah
72
Objectivity
29
Opus
131
Ovid
43
Pascal, B.
35, 157
Paternalism
55
perfectio
64, 67, 72â73
Philosophy\Philosophers
94â167
difference between the ancients and the moderns
102, 104
analytic
104, 106
Planetary Responsibility
58, 61
Plato
6
Socrates
74â75, 116â7, 159, 162
Pluralism
27
Polytheism
23
Progress in History
13
âgrand narrativeâ
35, 36, 40â1
regress in history
13, 35, 40â1, 71
Public opinion
32
Racism
84â86
Radical evil
82â86
Raphael
77
Religion, revelatory
25, 30
Rembrandt
159
Retribution
55
Responsibility: retrospective and prospective
58, 61, 68
Restitution
55â56
Revolutions (their modern meaning)
13
relation to ideologies
14
types of: the American Revolution
16
the Russian Revolution
16â17
the Nazi Revolution
12
Protestant Revolution
18â19
De-colonial Revolution
19
âNew Leftâ Revolution of 1968 and consequences
19â20
Gender Revolution of Womenâs emancipation
19â21
Gay Liberation
20â21
Quiet Revolutions
17
the Scientific Revolution
17â18
Industrial Revolutions
18
Romeo and Juliet
45
Rorty, R.
104
Rousseau, J.J.
36, 38, 44, 49, 131â132
Emile
133
Sartre, J.P.
110, 112
Schiller, F.
44
Schlegel, F.
132
Schleiermacher, F.
132
Schmidt-Grepaly, R.
127
Schmitt, C.
31
Science
87, 88, 92
Self, internal and external
49, 109, 111â112
and autobiography
108â9, 144
and dreams
123
conscious and unconscious
127
Sephardic Jews
45
Shakespeare, W. King Lear, Hamlet
81
Sismondi, J.C.L.
17
Spinoza, B.
45, 118
Tractatus Theologico-Politico
13
infinitum imaginations
160
Stalin I.D. (speech of)
31, 83
Stoic (philosophy)
44
âcaring for himselfâ
68
Suffragettes
20
Symmetrical reciprocity
52, 68
Ten Commandments
69
Totalitarianism
83â84
Toynbee, A.
35
Truth, in: politics
23
aesthetics
26
the sphere of law
32
and philosophy
97, 102, 106
Universalism
84
Universities
87, 93
Vermeer, J.
86
Vernuftglaube
133
Vicar of Savoy
130â132
Weber, M.
23
purposive rationality
29, 82
âultimate ratioâ
30, 108â9
Weltherrscher
133
Wittgenstein, L. language games
63
perfection in everyday life
73, 94, 100â101
Wotan
83
Zweig, S. Farewell to Yesterday
47, 110, 113â4