affirmatio religiosa, 318–19
Abel, Karl, 66, 72, 146
Against Heresies (Irenaeus), 393, 399–400, 557–58
Abelard, Peter, 669, 899
Against Leocrates (Lycurgus), 302
accidents, 456, 476–679, 694–96, 1132–33,
Agnes of Prague, 970
1159–62
Agnostos theos (Norden), 548
acclamation, 524–30, 535–36, 538–45, 574–77,
aidos, 831–32, 1243
580–82, 602–3
Akiba (Rabbi), 554
“Actif et moyen dans le verbe” (Benveniste),
Alain of Lille, 340, 981–82
1052
alatheia, 1090–91
action: art and, 685–87; being and, 688–89,
Albertine Statute, 180
701–2, 715–21, 726–28, 957–58; causation
Albert the Great, 447, 450
and, 480–83; ethics and, 722–23; forms of
Alciato, Andrea, 265
life and, 1227–30; glorification and, 566–67; Alcibiades (Plato), 1030, 1056–58, 1119–20
grace and, 609–10, 666–67; inoperativity
Alexander of Aphrodisias, 414, 446, 475–79,
and, 588–94; liturgy and, 658–72, 675–700;
482–83, 1078, 1212
mystery and, 678–79; necessity of, 722–23;
Alexander of Hales, 506
norms and, 941–46; ontology of, 695–98,
Alexander the Great, 592
744–46; potentiality and, 691–92, 724–25,
Alföldi, Andreas, 369–70, 523, 531–33, 536,
1038–40, 1082–87, 1269; providence and,
539–42, 547–48, 575, 592
472–78; use and, 1081–87
Algerian uprising, 177
Acts of Thomas, 389
Algonquians, 311
actualitas, 688, 698–702. See also dynamis;
Alphabet of Rabbi Akiba, 554
energeia; potentiality
Amalarius of Metz, 649–50, 704, 904
Ad conditorem canonum (bull), 975, 990
Ambrose (Saint), 381, 573, 585, 681–92, 703–16,
Address to the Greeks (Tatian), 397–98
724, 730–40, 910, 924–25, 964
Adorno, Theodor, 230, 809, 814
American Indians, 311
adsectatio, 707–8
Amery, Jean, 797, 811, 827–28
Adversus Arium (Marius Victorinus), 1227
Amira, Karl von, 534–36
Adversus Praxean (Tertullian), 513, 558
Ammianus Marcellinus, 549–50
adynamia, 1082–87, 1276–77
Ammonius, 325
Aeneid (Virgil), 737
amnesty, 262–63
Aeschylus, 317
amor fati, 43, 827
aesthetics, 551, 564–66, 785, 1113–15, 1117–18,
Amorum emblemata (Otto van Veen), 1023
1249–51
Amphilochius, 416
“An Aesthetics of Existence” (Foucault), 1116
anarchos, 422–24, 429–31, 496–97
affectability, 1085–86
anarchy, 194, 226–28, 383, 429, 563, 900,
affection, 833–35, 848, 1053–55, 1059, 1075,
1273–76
1095, 1147, 1171–77
Anastasius, 463
1291
1292 INDEX
Ancient Religion (Kerenyi), 832
Archaeology of Knowledge (Foucault), 853–54
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (Finley),
archè, 307–8, 422–24, 444–46, 497, 1019,
1042
1029–30, 1058, 1143–45, 1212, 1265–68,
Angelis gaudium (Gregory IX), 970
1275–76
angelology, 409–10, 502–22, 589–90, 614, 673,
Archinus, 262
782–83
archive, the, 852–76
animality: humanity’s relation to, 1191–95,
Arendt, Hannah, 37, 99, 748; auctoritas and,
1207–8, 1222, 1248, 1267; language and,
230–31; banality of evil and, 768; biologi
352–53; zones of indistinction and, 88–93,
cal life and, 7; civil war and, 168, 253–54;
307–9, 461, 494–95, 625–26, 976, 1076–78,
German guilt and, 824–25; human rights
1108–10
and, 111; on language, 867; the Muslim
anomie, 197, 199, 209–10, 217–29, 241,
and, 807–8, 814–15; on slavery, 1043–45; on
282–84, 867, 895, 1266–67, 1273–74
totalitarianism, 99–100, 140
Anselm (Saint), 340
Argenis (Barclay), 289
“Answer to Davenant’s Preface to Gondibert”
Arianism, 382, 422–24, 667, 692
(Hobbes), 273
Aristotle: Alexander of Aphrodisias and,
ante festum, 845–47
475–83; alien life of the philosopher and,
Antelme, Robert, 12, 151, 799, 829–30, 851
929; Aquinas’s use of, 6, 447–49, 491–92,
anthems, 504
692–93, 728–29, 731–32, 1081–82, 1131–32,
anthropogenesis, 1098–99, 1127–29, 1143–48,
1138; bios–zoē distinction and, 5–6, 148–49,
1192–97, 1214–15
258; causation and, 369, 446, 455–62, 473–
anthropology, 222–23, 227, 302, 575–80,
74, 482–500, 609–22, 692–93, 1091–96;
582–84, 746, 751
chresis and, 1031–33, 1049–55; civil war
Antichrist, the, 282–83, 285, 288
and, 260–61; contemplation and, 1242–43;
Antigone (Sophocles), 189, 813–14, 1242
definition of the human of, 99; dynamis–
Antikes Führertum (Pohlenz), 711
energeia split and, 40–43; energeia and,
Antisthenes, 1140–41
685–86, 688–89, 1031–32, 1046, 1071–72,
Apologia (Apuleius), 442
1082–87, 1269, 1276–77; ethics of, 716–17,
Apologia pauperum (Bonaventure), 977, 986
724–28, 736–37; Foucault’s use of, 9–10;
Apology (Aristides of Athens), 396
Heidegger on, 726, 1071–72; inoperativity
Apostolic Constitutions, 661, 663
and, 595; life and politics distinction and,
Apostolic Tradition (Hippolytus), 907
1024, 1205–11, 1227; mystery and, 29–30;
appropriation, 810–11, 831–46, 888–89,
oaths and, 314–15; oikonomia and, 387;
985–1001, 1050–55, 1065–72, 1100–1112,
ontological difference and, 443–49, 1071–
1186–98, 1256–60
72, 1085–87, 1135–37, 1147–48, 1155–56,
a priori, 1127–29, 1144–50, 1275
1159–61, 1173, 1178, 1180, 1185–86, 1206–11,
apse mosaic, 372
1229–30, 1234–35; on perjury, 345; poiesis
aptitude, 1169–70
and, 686–87, 716, 1037–38, 1043–48, 1090,
Apuleius, 440–42, 850
1251; on potentiality, 27, 695–98; slavery
Aquinas, Thomas, 341, 464–65, 506–19, 571,
and, 1029–30, 1033–37, 1045–48, 1095–96,
597, 628, 671, 681–82, 719, 734–35, 745,
1098–99; the subject and, 1071, 1118, 1122,
917, 932–33; Aristotle and, 6, 447–49, 491–
1125, 1131–44, 1149–58, 1164, 1168, 1224–25;
92, 692–93, 728–32, 1081–82, 1131–32, 1138;
theology of, 5, 379–80, 408, 419, 421,
works of, 186, 453–57, 471–73, 490–97,
442–46, 475–78, 481, 653–54, 691. See also
506–7, 516, 681–82, 729–30, 1092
–97. See
specific works
also specific works
Arius, 422–23
archaeology, 307–10, 312, 473; anarchos and,
Arpe, Curt, 1138–39
422–24, 429–31, 444, 496–97; Foucault
ars, 686, 914–15, 941, 1094–95
on, 375; of glory, 524, 551–601; as meta
art, 685–87, 692–93, 700, 915, 1117–18,
semantics, 853–56; of office, 704–19; of
1120–23, 1249–51
ontology, 1127–29, 1131–48; of politics,
Artemidorus, 1042–43
1265; of power, 369–71; theology and,
Article 16 (French Constitution), 177
422–23; theory and, 1019
Article 48 (Weimar Constitution), 178–79, 217
INDEX 1293
Article 77 (Republican Constitution), 180
Averroes, 446, 729, 1218–19, 1239
Arts de gouverner (Senellart), 473
Avicenna, 41, 1168, 1184
Arunta, the, 576
Avignon Curia, 995–96, 998
asceticism, 722–23, 905–10, 927–34, 975–
1000. See also flight (from the world);
Bachmann, Ingeborg, 837
monasticism
Bacht, Heinrich, 909–10
Assmann, Jan, 547
bad conscience, 722–23, 808, 827–29
asstructures, 1108–9, 1138–39, 1182–85
Bader, Günter, 911
At an Uncertain Hour (Levi), 829
Badiou, Alain, 24–25
Athanasius, 696, 751, 893, 1154–55
Ball, Hugo, 513
Athenagoras, 399, 410, 513
BalladorePallieri, Giorgio, 185
“At the Border Between Life and Death” (Ryn
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 551–52, 564
and Klodzinski), 871–75
ban, the, 27–28, 42–53, 62–63, 65, 70, 88–96,
auctoritas: definitions of, 231–32; as mana,
1269–70. See also sovereignty
209–10; monastic rule and, 913–15; potestas
The Banquet (Dante), 506
and, 230–42, 369–70, 434, 438, 463, 497,
Barclay, John, 289
1266–67, 1278–79; theology and, 531, 542
bare life: as Being, 148–49, 153–54; in
Augustine (Saint), 464–65; acclamation
Benjamin, 55–57; biopolitics and, 101–2,
and, 525; divine autonomy and, 441–42;
113–26, 148, 1211–12, 1265–66; brain death
eschatology and, 288; forms of life and,
and, 132–36; citizenship and, 105–12;
896–99, 902; governance and, 447–53,
Dasein and, 1192–93; definitions of,
629; katechon and, 385–86; the law and,
70–71, 148–49; forms of life and, 1221–26;
337; liturgy and, 562, 573, 581–82, 688, 691;
hypostasis and, 1149–58; hypostasization
office and, 732, 734–35; ontology and, 751,
and, 1221–26; Jews as exemplary of, 147;
1177–78, 1271–72; rules and, 910, 917–25,
juridical violence and, 55–56; medical
954–55, 964. See also specific works
experimentation and, 127–31; the Muslim
Augustus Caesar, 86–87, 224–25, 234–35,
and, 805–7, 822–23, 1243; politics and, 7,
237–38, 496–97, 592
9–13, 74–77, 100–104, 113–19, 241, 264,
Aulus Gellius, 260, 347–48, 709–10
1206–8, 1232; production of, 71; sacredness
Auschwitz: crime of, 814–15; dignity and,
and, 84–85; sexuality and, 111–12; slavery
805–7, 814; guilt and, 825–26; the Muslim
as, 1045–48; sovereignty and, 9, 1215–17,
and, 785–86, 788–818, 870–71; rem
1273–74; survival and, 850, 866; technants of, 869–70; shame and, 819–50;
nology and, 1098–99; temporality and,
Sonderkommando in, 767–68, 777–78,
1147–48
819–20; state of exception and, 793–94;
Barion, Hans, 270
survivors of, 812; temporality of, 846–47;
Barlaam, 425
testimony and, 841–43
Barlaam and Iosaphat, 396
Ausnahme (term). See exception, the
Barth, Karl, 564–65, 567, 793
Austin, J. L., 535–36
“Bartleby the Scrivener” (Melville), 43, 728
Austria, 110
Bartolo, 912, 963
autarchy, 1204–6, 1225–26
Basil of Caesarea, 382, 416, 573, 686, 893–902,
authenticity, 811, 1068–72, 1249–50
908, 914–15, 920, 926, 947, 967
authority. See auctoritas; potesta
Bataille, Georges, 53, 64, 93–95
Authorization for the Annihilation of Life
Baumstark, Anton, 680
Unworthy of being Lived (Binding and
Bayle, M., 474–75, 570, 616–17, 1171, 1173
Hoche), 113
Beaufret, Jean, 1196
authors, 853–54, 859–61, 868–69
Becker, Oskar, 1198–99
autism, 791
“Before the Law” (Kafka), 44, 51
autoaffection, 833–35, 848, 1141–42, 1147–48
Behemoth, 269–72, 283, 290
autoconstraint, 739–42
being: action and, 419–29, 434, 452–53,
Autolycus, 306–7
460–64, 473–74, 480–82, 622–23, 650,
automata, 1035–37
688–89, 701–2, 715–19, 957–58; appropriaautonomy: divine, 421–22
tion and, 1050–55, 1105–6, 1186–97;
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being ( continued ):
319–20; middle voice and, 1052–53, 1083–
Aristotilean schism in, 9–10, 12, 443–49,
84; nutritive life and, 1212–13; on oaths,
1131–38, 1163–64; bare life and, 148–49;
303–4, 325; on rhythm, 1183; sacredness
biopolitics of, 859; consignment and, 52,
and, 323–25, 433; scientific mythologemes
56, 82–84, 92, 812, 831–35, 847–48, 1104–5,
and, 64; semioticsemantic distinction
1188–11198; effectiveness and, 650, 860–61;
and, 25; vows and, 919–20. See also specific
existence and, 1149–58, 1164, 1167–72,
works
1177–80, 1185–88; glory and, 560–62;
Benz, Ernst, 422, 750–51
havingtobe and, 717–21, 744–49, 858–59; BergenBelsen, 794, 797
hypostasis and, 1149–58; inoperativity and,
Berlusconi, Silvio, 541
1108–10; language and, 1132–33, 1143–48,
Bernard (Saint), 571, 911
1177–78, 1272; life and, 1024, 1193–94;
Bernard of Clairvaux, 917, 932, 964
logos and, 847–51; modalities of, 1159–62,
Bernard Prim, 961
1164–76, 1179–84, 1194–95; ontological
Bessarion, 916
difference and, 52, 148–49, 724, 1131–32,
Bettelheim, Bruno, 791, 793–94, 797–800,
1188–89; as substance, 695–96, 1122–23,
802, 820, 823–24, 850
1132–39; technology and, 600–601;
Bible, the: Book of Acts and, 898; Book of
willing and, 750–52. See also Aristotle;
Exodus and, 339–40, 552–53, 556–57;
essence; havingtobe; Heidegger, Martin;
Book of Genesis and, 315, 397, 451; Book
lettingbe; ontology
of Isaiah and, 280; Book of Job and,
Being and Time (Heidegger), 684, 747, 81
0,
269–70, 282; Book of Luke and, 712–13,
845–46, 1063–64, 1068, 1088, 1104, 1142,
779; Book of Matthew and, 304, 332, 389,
1185–93
474, 779; Book of Revelation and, 502–3,
beingatwork, 686, 701, 1031–32, 1038, 1046,
565–66, 593; Book of Romans and, 522,
1072, 1081–87, 1206–7, 1249–51. See also
530; Ecclesiastes and, 992; Gospel of John
energeia
and, 555, 665, 1234; liturgy in, 653–57;
Beiträge zur Philosophie (Heidegger), 52,
oathmaking and, 304; providence in, 489;
1157–58, 1186–90, 1195–96
Psalms and, 573, 579, 594, 908–10, 984;
Beleth, Jean, 704
Romans and, 344. See also theology
Belgium, 109–10
Bichat, Xavier, 862–64
belonging: ecstasy and, 195–96
Bickermann, Elias, 80, 310, 324
Bénatouïl, Thomas, 1073
Binding, Karl, 113–15, 118
Benedict of Aniane, 893, 899–900, 913, 948,
Binswanger, Ludwig, 843–45
1106–7
bioontology, 1224–26
Benedictus, 529
biopolitics: Arendt and, 7; auctoritas and,
Bengel, Johann A., 200, 377
232–42; bodies and, 141–42; concentra
Benjamin, Walter: aesthetics and, 551–52; bio
tion camps and, 7, 12; definitions of, 6,
politics and, 7–8; on disgust, 832; eschatol
99–104, 153, 815–17, 864, 1208–9, 1216–17,
ogy and, 289, 1112, 1129, 1147; fascism and,
1265–66; dignity and, 805–6; emergence
94–95; on guilt, 26–27, 56; Heidegger and,
of, 101–2; form of life and, 1205–6,
1188–89; on language, 45, 47, 339, 1218;
1232–39; homo sacer and, 95–96, 101–2,
on the law, 45, 47, 49, 71; law’s violence
150–54; lebensunwerten Leben and, 113–19;
and, 36–37; purity and, 241–42; Schmitt
medicine and, 132–36, 151–52; modalities
and, 211–21; state of exception and, 13–14,
and, 858–59; modern democracy and,
168–69, 225, 1215–16; on violence, 54–57,
11–12, 100; the Muslim and, 797–800;
197–98, 234. See also specific works
Nazi uses of, 113–26, 150; ontology and,
Bennett, H., 61–62
1206–11, 1224; rights talk and, 105–12;
Benveniste, Émile: animal languages and,
social contract theory and, 148–49; sov
352–53; aphasia of, 852–53; auctoritas and
ereignty and, 9–10, 864–66; state of
potestas and, 232; to be and, 1132–33; on
exception and, 169; terrorism and, 264;
blasphemy, 336; on the colossus, 83; on
thanatopolitics and, 101–2, 117–18, 123–26;
discourse, 842–43; Foucault and, 853–55;
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