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(Peter Sloterdijk) Derrida, An Egyptian (BookFi) PDF
PETER SLOTERDI]K
T RANSLAT E D BY WI ELAN D HO BAN
polity
Derrida, un Egyptien
catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Contents
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
Preliminary Note
11
19
29
41
51
65
Index
75
Acknowledgements
vii
Preliminary Note
Preliminary Note
Preliminary Note
Preliminary Note
Preliminary Note
xii
Preliminary Note
xiii
non
plus
we
can do
'
now 1
which
Ibid., p. 286.
irksome
12
13
Then
differance,
Ibid.
[Translator's note: this passage can only be understood with ref
erence to the original word for 'distortion', Entstellung (verb:
entstellen). The noun Stelle means 'place', and its combination
with the negational prefix ent- indicates a displacement.]
14
15
Monotheism
Moses and
18
and yet, as
thinker
beginning
in
France,
then
23
which,
In
other
than
the
undeconstructible
27
communio.
The excessive grip of political citizens' assem
blies on the lives of mortals inevitably resulted, ac
cording to Borkenau, in a new immortalist reaction
- it led, with the mediation of a barbaric interlude,
to the start of the Christian era in Western Europe.
On account of its new emphasis on immortality,
'Christian culture' (though there is some uncer
tainty as to the aptness of the cultural concept)
quite obviously constituted the grandchild of Egyp
ticism, though it now made the immortality of the
soul its focus - the Catholic cult of relics alone
forms an indirect continuation of the Egyptian
concern for the eternal body. But Christian im
mortalism, according to Borkenau's schema, in
turn provoked its own antithesis through its ex
cesses : the Modern Age , beginning with the
33
these
speculative
reflections
on the
buildings .
(As
his
40
the word
completion
and
'end'
primarily
exhaustion.
Later
Hence
44
any
biography
worth
mentioning
or
45
for
47
Debray,
48
88f.
49
It
53
Ibid.
p.
54
82.
Phenomenology of Spirit is
still an
following
about
the
proto-philosopher:
59
It is
p.
46.
60
p.
77
61
Ibid.
62
63
73
Index
Akhenaten 1 2
Chinese 57
ambiguity x , 22
Chora
ambivalence 15, 37
66
see
museology
archive xi, 4, 47-8, 6 1 , 70-2
The Origins
a/ Totalitarianism 30
Arendt, Hannah,
Aristotelianism 38
(Derrida) 59-60, 72
circumcision 1 2 , 1 5 , 18
communism 26, 30
completion 2-3, 4, 8--9
consumer society 34
Coop Himmelblau 36
cultural generations 29-32
cultural philosophy,
Aten religion 1 2
Borkenau's 30-9
cultures 31-4
Baudelaire , Charles 63
being 27 , 42, 71
DaH, Salvador 70
death
body 54-6
35-40
responses of civilizations
to 29-40
signs and 54-5
Debray, Regis 41-9
Catholicism 30, 33
Index
decentring 8
deconstruction 2, 4, 1 6-18,
53, 57-63
56-7
Eisenman, Peter 36
Luhmann on 6-9
Epicureans 34, 38
as semantic secularization
existentialism 69
35
and survival 48-9
46-9
39, 59-60
Derrida, Jacques
death (2004) viii, 73
self-portrait 59-60
differance 1 3-14, 46
difference, the ontological
71
Fellinger, Raimund 73
Ferrucci, Franco,
The Life of
God 45
Feuerbach, Ludwig 69
freedom of choice 37-40,
56, 65
Freud, Sigmund 1 1-18, 20,
discourse analysis 5 1 , 53
distortion 1 3-14, 1 6-17,
46
dream interpretation 1 1 ,
23-7, 57-60
Gadamer, Hans-Georg 42
God, the life of 44-9
grammar 3
Groys, Boris 65-73
or dream curation 68
Habermas , Jurgen xii
Egypt, Jewish relationship
with 1 1-18, 2 1-7, 36,
45-9
'Egyptian' , use of term 27
Egyptians 1 1-16, 2 1-7, 32,
65
Hegel on the 57
76
haunting
(hantologie) 1 5-16,
36
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich 1 , 4 1 , 5 1-64,
65
Phenomenology of Spirit
58
Index
Hegelianism 1-2 , 3
Kojeve, Alexandre 2
69, 71
hermeneutics 23, 26-7
humanism 2 1
Husserl, Edmund 5 4
Lacan, Jacques 1 5
language
for Hegel 56-7
philosophy of 3, 42-3
language game 4-5
49, 54-5 , 7 1
politics o f 58-60, 65-6
incognito 17, 37
Indus Valley Civilizations 32
philosophies of
life
philosophies of 4 1-2
as survival 34, 63
transformation through
the archive 72
lifeworld 67
inscriptions 61
intelligence
as ability to marvel 73
Margins ofPhilosophy
Jacob 22
Jews 1 1-18, 20, 2 1-7, 60, 68
relationship with Egypt
(Derrida) 53
Marx, Karl 69
Marxism, readings of
messianism 25-6
materialism, semiological 35,
68, 70
mediology 44-9
Kierkegaard, S0ren 69
knowledge economies 44
messianism, Marxist
readings of 25-6
77
Index
metabiology 3
metaphysics 6, 1 1 , 37, 38,
42, 7 1 , 72
dream interpretation 1 1 ,
57-60, 62
of presence 43, 55
parody 23
'phantasiology' 53
philosophy
abandonment of 3, 4-5 ,
41-3
linguistic or semiological
turn 3 , 42-3
37, 60
2 1-7, 70
'Pit and the Pyramid, The'
(Derrida) 53-6, 61-3
Moses 1 1-18
multifocality 7
political
museology 67-73
the 25-6
philosophy 2 1-7, 70
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1 9
57-8, 67
observation 5-6
second-order 7, 5 1-2
ontology 1 5
55
psychoanalysis 1 6-17, 2 1 ,
23, 52
pyramid 32, 40, 49, 51
ontotheology 42, 62
as archive 7 1-2
31
oppositions ix-x
other, the 18, 68
55-6, 57-63
17-18
78
Queneau, Raymond 2
Index
receptivity 43, 59
Spengler, Oswald 3 1 , 34
relics 33
religion
spirltualization, progress in
birth of monotheism
1 1-18
as a historical medium of
social synthesis 44
Renaissance 34
13
stability, forms of 7-8
Stoics 34, 38
subject
and being 27
dream interpretation
69
58-60
survival 8--9, 33, 48--9, 63
scepticism 34, 38
Hegel's 53-6
signifier, and signified 54--5
signs
ambiguity and
polyvalence of x
the arbitrariness of 56
Derrida on 54-6
totalitarianism 3 0
reading 24--7
traces 1 3 , 1 5 , 17-18, 61
situation (Luhmann's) 7
social system, differentiation
of the 5, 7
sociology of world society
4--5
4, 8--9
translations xii, 5-6, 1 9
transportability 45-9, 60-3,
66-7
Socrates 59
soul, immortality of the 33,
54--5
79
Index
Vernant, Jean-Pierre 59
worldliness 30
vitalism 4 1-2, 72
writing
philosophy of 3, 43-4, 54
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 3 , 69
80