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NUMBERS AND SYMBOLS graph of, 28
3/5 Compromise, 275 internalization of, 194, 259
invisible man as, 261
material conditions of, 209
A Negro as, 210
Aaron, 115, 118 not-anymore of, 190
Abel, 61, 73 ontological conditions of, 209
Abject oppositional equivalency
abstract category, 19 to exalted, 189
black body as, 163 outstanding, 189
blackness and, 276 permanent, 122
body, 140 phenomenology of, 260
Cain and, 61 politicized existence of, 299
collective temporality and, 211 return to elemental, 317
color and, 167 revolutionary actor, 316
consciousness, 195 revulsion of, 212
creation of, 297, 313 separation from collective, 189
criminality and, 143 slavery and, 132
Dasein and, 178 static position of, 214
ego formation of, 196 time and, 131, 133, 265, 281, 304
elemental and, 141, 214, 318 typology of, 62
exalted and, 4, 6, 318 world history and, 179
first abjection, 63 Abnormality, ontological, 175
formation of, 168 Abolitionists, 230
fracturing lineage of, 287 Abortion, 288
genealogical relationship to, 75, 306 Absolute knowledge, 100, 146
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322 INDEX
Absolutes, 122 Augustine, 264, 265
Accommodationism, 244 Authority, 207, 212, 220, 227, 238
Adam, 38–60, 64–72, 97, 264 Auto-affection, 104, 125, 137, 150,
Aesthetic corpus, 53 175, 183, 259, 302
Aesthetic production, 319 Auto disaffection, 124, 126, 141, 197
Aesthetics, 166 Awareness, 188
Aesthetics (Hegel), 202
Affection, 137, 141, 202, 286
Africana philosophy, viii B
African sovereignty, 225 Bad, blackness and, 165
Agamben, Giorgio, 6, 16–18, 26, Badiou, Alain, 2, 24–25, 41
31, 41, 44–47, 62, 112, Baldwin, James, 84
133–134, 281 Banishment, 63–64
Agency, 76, 133, 141, 204, 236, 255, Bare life, 6, 41, 46–47, 53, 310, 319
259, 285, 291, 315 Barolsky, Paul, 65, 72
Age of Revolution, 281 Barriers between subjects, 8, 152
Agitation, revolutionary, 39, 317 Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville), 232
Alcibiades, 137 Bearing of children, 266
Alienation, 157, 235, 289–291 Beast and the Sovereign Vol. 1, The
See also Natal alienation (Derrida), 15, 29, 173
Alter, Robert, 37, 42, 97, 116 Beautiful soul, 203
Ambition, 199, 227 Beauty, 166
American, 124, 210 Being
Amistad (ship), 228 affirmation of, 260
Anatomy lessons, 15 concept of, 51
Animal nature, 311, 313, 316 continuum of, 9
Animals, creation of, 42 loss of, 217
Anne, 290 out of time, 120, 132
Antinomy, 176 Being and Event (Badiou), 2, 41
Appearance, physical, 203, 212, 245 Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 27
A priori, 101 Being and Time (Heidegger), 173,
Architecture of colonies, 311 178, 187
Arendt, Hannah, 246 Being-for-itself, 150
Aristotle, 17 Being for other, 195, 213
Art, production of, 319 Being present, 93–94
Ashantee, 240 Being toward, 305
Aspirational time, 307 Being-toward-death, 180, 189, 304
Astonishment, 137 Belonging, 213, 262
Asylums, 253, 254 Beloved (Morrison), 285, 289, 302
Asymptotes, 27, 28 Benito Cereno (Melville), 220, 309
Atlantic, slave rebellion in, 227 Benjamin, Walter, 26, 105, 113–114,
Attraction, 200 134, 302
Auctoritas (exception), 134 Bifurcated existence, 210
INDEX 323
Binary existence, 178 marked, 79
Biology, 133 materiality of, 275
Bio-politics, 17 mortal, 100
Bio-power, 41, 46 ontological, 84, 88, 101, 166
Bios, 18, 45–46, 49 political space, 138
Birth, 180 restraint of, 227
Black body, 19, 163, 225, 258 separations imposed on, 275–276
Black horse, 164 spatiality of, 102
Black identity, 164 subject, 164
Black Jacobins, The (James), 244 substitution of, 209
Black man, 175, 176, 195 time and, 87
Blackness, 163, 175, 203, 209, 220, transcendent, 281
235, 239, 258, 276 transportation of enslaved, 220,
Black Orpheus (Sartre), 191 226, 231
Black power protests, 246 weight of, 164
Black Radical Tradition, ix, xi Body language, 67–69, 76
Black Reconstruction in America Body schema, 138
(Du Bois), 128 Bogues, Anthony B., 41
Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 20, Bondage, see Restraint, physical
173, 191, 213, 251, 307 Breath of life, 38, 40–41
Blank body, 102 Brown, James, 37
Blinding, 254 Bubbles (Sloterdijk), 290
Blood, thematics of, 17 Buck-Morss, Susan, 302
Blumenberg, Hans, 122 Burke, Edmund, 5–7, 135–138, 151,
Body 165, 172, 259
abject, 140–144
attraction in spite of, 200
black, 19, 163, 225, 258 C
blank, 102 Cadavers, 15
child’s, 292 Cain, 63–65, 74
corporeal, 281 Calculus, 22
dark, 169, 210 Calhoun, John C., 222
elemental, 87, 136, 143 Camps, x, 18, 278, 281
enslaved, 281 Capitalization, 128
evacuated, 112 Captains of ships, 223
exalted, 136–140, 143 Care, 183
freedom separated from, 276 Cartesian graph, 28
higher order actor, 200 Causality, mechanical, 45, 64, 71,
hyper-awareness of, 205 102, 136, 170
immortal, 96–100 Cave, 260
kings, 171 Cavell, Stanley, 205
legal possession of, 228 Chain of perception, 170
lifeless, 93 Chance, 28
324 INDEX
Chaos, 166 Coming of age, 254
Cherubim, 72 Command
Children illusory nature of, 220
bearing of, 266 possibility of, 222
interlocutors, 6 Commodities, production of, 274–276
of slaves, 280 Common, 11–12
Choice, 286 Communal acceptance, 124
Choke points, intellectual, 120 Compensation, 189
Choreography, 37 Competition, 61
Christ, 171, 246, 291–293 Compromise, 244
Christianity, 185, 245 Condemnation, 174
Citizenship, 9, 207, 210, 274, 286, Confessions (Augustine), 86, 98
311–315 Conflict
Civil society, 108, 109 asymmetry of, 317
Civil time, 108, 133, 143, 148, 152, continuous, 152
157, 168, 176, 214, 215, 263, Conformity, 166
278, 300, 307 Confusion, 235, 238
Civil War, U.S., 222 Consciousness
Classical education, 255 abject, 195
Code Noir, The, 278–281 development of, 130
Coercion, 18, 47, 114, 144, 166, 221, elemental, 195
226, 313 first degree, 194
Coexistence, 176 journey through, 146
Cogito, Cartesian, 41, 183, 193 process, 176, 192
Cognition, 122, 124 pure, 194
Cognitive dissonance, 175 reflective, 182, 193
Collective temporality, 108, 140, second degree, 196
152–154, 157, 176, 212, separation from other, 217
216, 315 superimposition of two, 195
Collectivity, 104–105, 108–110 third degree, 198
College, 253 unity of inner and outer, 203
Colonialism, 316 unreflected, 193
Colonial period, 310–311 Conscripts of Modernity (Scott), 244
Color line, 120, 169, 254, 287 Consecration, 172
Colors Consent, 277–278, 284–286
abjection and, 167 Contempt, 130
absence of, 241 Context, destruction of, 299–303
aesthetics and, 165 Continuum
display of, 221, 235 of being, 9
Coltrane, John, 263 of time, 312
Columbus, Christopher, 231 use of term, 14
Comay, Rebecca, 301–302, 304 Contract theory, 39, 104–106
INDEX 325
Conversion, 185 Genesis, 62
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 122 Hegel on, 49
Corporeal body, 281 inevitability of, 71
Corpus (Nancy), 84 insignificance of, 318
Cosmogony, 53 and knowledge of good
Cosmology, viii, 37 and evil, 59
Coups, 10 lifelessness and, 45
Covenants, 36, 111 metaphysical, 181, 250
Creation, 36, 53, 78, 89, 315 order restored through, 219
Creative power, 39, 112, 290 origin of, 100
Creativity, 313 perishing and, 187
Criminality, 143–144, 224, 227 power over, 214
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 91 self-making and, 48
“Critique of Violence” (Benjamin), threshold, 171
26, 105, 113, 134 thrownness and, 180
Culture, 10 transformation through,
Curiosity, 239, 261 208, 218, 262
Curse, 77 ultrametaphysical, 250
unnatural, 276, 281
wage of sin, 55
D way of life, 304
Daily prayers, 212 See also Social death; Violence
Damnation, 198, 201 Death penalty, 38, 116–118, 143–145,
Dante, 174 279, 303
Dark body, 169, 210 Death row inmates, 181
Dasein, 178, 185, 187 Debt, 190
Death Deception, 225, 242, 247, 273
Abel, 74 Declaration of Independence,
authority and, 207 Haitian, 244
barrier between abject and Declaration of Independence,
elemental, 261 U.S., 277
barrier between typologies Deficiency, ontological, 90
of being, 187 Deficit, material, 189
being-toward, 180, 189 Deformity, 166
blackness and, 165 Dehumanization, 241
cheating, 317 Deleuze, Gilles, 216, 233
choosing, 54, 285 Democratic theory, 313
conception and, 304 Depravity, 256
corporeal, 280, 288, 292 Derrida, Jacques, 15–18, 29–31, 104,
elemental figure and, 172, 210 125, 173, 303
essence extinguished by, 207 Descartes, René, 260
Foucault on, 184 Desecration of human form, 232
326 INDEX
Desire, 64–67, 71–73, 86, 93, 96, 102, Edge, 309
124, 136, 145, 157, 314–316 Education, 254
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 244 Ego creation, 195
Determinism, 259 Elemental
Dialectical matrices, 24 abject and, 141, 144, 214, 218, 220
Dialectical oscillation, 26 American as, 210
Difference and Repetition (Deleuze), bare human, 135
216, 233 barrier with exalted, 138, 140
Differentiation, 105 body, 87, 136, 143
Dimensionlessness, 214 building block of subjects, 151
Disaffection, 176, 178, 184 citizen as, 217
Discipline, 229, 236, 237 consciousness, 195
Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 18 creation of humans, 36–51
Discourse, 211 exalted and, 154, 169, 278
Discursive being, 202 gaze of, 259
Disembodied attraction, 200 graph of, 28
Disintegration, 151–152 human as, 217
Disorder, 166 inner eye of, 261
Disowning Knowledge (Cavell), 205 internal time and, 91, 101
Dissection, 15 mediating term between
Dissonance, spatial, 290 abject and exalted, 7
Distension in time, 88–90, 99 metamorphosis of, 262
Divine, 11–13, 22, 277 Michelangelo’s depiction of, 102
Divine violence, 114 nature and, 106
Divine will, 67 normative state, 286
Docility, 16, 239 observer as, 261
Domination relationship to time and space, 172
discourse of, 156 self-consciousness and, 151
temporalities of, 274 time and, 92, 157
Double-consciousness, 120, 126–127, to be of, 190
252, 260, 286 trajectory toward, 174
Double horizon of external and bodily white as, 217
space, 139 Elephant, dissection of, 15
Douglass, Frederick, x Ellison, Ralph, ix, 128, 243, 250
Du Bois, W.E.B., x, 20, 27, 122–131, Elongated subjectivity, 171
169, 252, 286 Empire of Necessity (Grandin), 222
Dust, see Soil Empirical consciousness, 192
Duties, 108–111, 116 Empowerment, 257
Emptiness, 204
Enemies, 15, 133–134
E Envy, 198
Economic, notion of, 193 Erasure, ontological, 291
Eden, Garden of, 42, 47, 55, 59, 64 Escape from slavery, 293
INDEX 327
Esposito, Robert, 311 Ex-native subject, 308
Essence Expectation, 97
loss of, 294 Experiences, 99, 199, 201
separated from body, 206 Expiation, 115
sublation of, 260 Exploitation, 241
Estates, 156 Expulsion, 69
Eternal recurrence, 75, 216 External recognition, 206
Eternity, 89, 90, 93, 94, 98 Extreme terms, 19, 148, 151, 155
European ideology, 182 Eyes, inner, 261
European sovereignty, 227
Eve, 38, 44, 55, 64, 68–69
Evil, 57, 73, 301 F
Exalted Fall, the, 47–48, 54–55, 69, 85, 135,
abject and, 6, 189 172, 265
abstract category, 19 False consciousness, 286
allure of, 171 False persona, 219, 234, 258
attributes of, 56 Fanon, Frantz, 20, 48, 147, 173, 191,
authority and, 210 193, 213, 233, 251, 258,
body, 140, 143 307–311
civil time and, 278 Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience
collective nature of, 104 (Sekyi-Otu), 259
and creation of humans, 53–60 Farrington, Constance, 309–310
differentiation and, 105 Fate, 255
elemental and, 138, 140, 218 Father, primordial, 290
genealogy of, 75 Fear, 196
graph of, 28 Federalist Papers (Madison), 275
internal time and, 103–105 Feminism, 43
lawgiver as, 111 Fiats, 36
mortality and, 119 Fidelity, 205
relationship to collective, 142 Figureheads, 231, 249
second-sight of, 172 Finger of God, 66
secular embodiment of Godhead, 13 Finitude, 42, 55
secular possibility, 78 First degree consciousness, 194
separation from collective, 188, 212 First dimension of black man, 214
time, 278 First experience, 149–151
visual capacity of, 171 First look, 136
Exceptionality, 18, 107–108, 294 Flight, 185
Exclusion Flowing of time, 263
metaphysical, 63 Flux, 196, 203
space of, 56 Fold in experience, 304
Execution, see Death penalty “Follow Your Leader” (Strong), 231
Existence, multivalent, vii Forms, 138
328 INDEX
Forrest, Leon, 245, 246, 249 Geographic confusion, 235
Foucault, Michel, 1–3, 11, 16–17, 41, Geometry, 27
184, 297, 319 Gestalt psychology, 138
Founding Fathers, 290 Giotto, 290
Fractured subjectivity, 250 God
France, 282, 290–291 as craftsman, 58
Free black people, 238 judgment of, 114
Freeburg, Christopher, 240 laws of, 50
Freedom relationship to humans, 53–55
absolute, 294, 316 time and, 94
consciousness of, 259 vision of, 99
exalted and, 157 will of, 43, 315
internal temporality and, 106–108 Good
lack of, 275 knowledge of, 57
lasting, 225 whiteness and, 165
ontological stuff of, 275 Gordon, Lewis, 174
response to slavery, 103 Gordon-Reed, Annette, 281,
separation from, 276 284–286, 288–289
Freedom and Nature (Ricoeur), 103 Governance, coherent, 10–11
Freedom fighting, 227 Government, 277–278
Freedom in the Making of Western See also State
Culture (Patterson), 103 Grandin, Greg, 222
Free will, 246 Greek tragedy, 256
French Revolution, 16, 224, 246, 250, Grey, 225
282, 300–301, 304, 309 Groove, the, 35
Fugitive slaves, 279 Guineaman, 226
Fullness, blackness as, 240 Guyer, Paul, 125
Future, distension of, 99
Futurity, 264
H
Hachures, 215
G Haitian Revolution,
Garden of Eden, 42, 47, 55, 244, 246, 273, 300–304,
59–60, 63–64 308–311
Garner, Margaret, 289 Ham, curse of, 73–78, 135
Gaze, 15, 136, 166, 201, 259 Hands, depiction of, 76
Genealogy, 58, 73, 75, 116, 127, Hand-to-hand combat, 15–16
131–133, 154–156, 171, 179, Hardship, 236
211, 216, 274, 281, 283, 287, Hartman, Saidiya, x
290–293, 300, 304 Hatchet polishers, 239
General will, 14, 105, 142 Hatred, 197, 202
Genesis, viii, 63–79, 89, 97, 100, 264 Haunting, x
INDEX 329
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 4, non-being as, 188
6–9, 19, 24–26, 45, 48–51, 136, not-yet as, 188
145, 151–157, 195, 202, Othello as, 201, 207
312–314 permanent state, 262
Hegel, Haiti and Universal History place between figures, 2
(Buck-Morss), 302 point of transition between
Hegel’s Practical Philosophy (Pippin), 45 ontological and material, 189
Hegel’s Rabble (Ruda), 155 poly-subjective form of, 209, 211
Hegemony, 105, 182 possibilities and dangers of, x
Heidegger Change, ripening and, 190
The (Malabou), 168 space of regeneration, 310
Heidegger, Martin, 173, 178, 183, the Thing and, 9
186, 303–306 transitional nature of, 96, 260
Hellenistic thought, 185 transitional subjectivity as, 218
Hell, veritable, 309–311 transition to, 223
Helplessness, 228 typologies of, 201
Hemingses of Monticello, The vehicle from abject to elemental, 188
(Gordon-Reed), 281 Homo Sacer (Agamben), 16–18, 26,
Hemings, Sally, 20, 281–295, 44–47, 62, 112, 281
302, 306 Horns, 36
Hendrick, Donald, 209 Hostis indicatio (public enemy), 134
Hermeneutics of the Subject Humanity, 178, 181, 215, 317
(Foucault), 184 Humans, representation of, 52
Heroes, revolutionary, 250 Human will, 67
Hibernation, 262 Husserl, Edmund, 84, 193, 196
Hierarchy, 117, 149–150, 222, 314 Hyper-affection, 148, 154
Historical existence, erasure of, 174 Hyperbolas, 27–28
History, 181 Hyper-disaffection, 148
History of Sexuality, The (Foucault), Hyper-self-affection, 141, 156, 171
16–17 Hypocrisy, 246, 273, 307
Hobbes, Thomas, 316
Holiness, 117, 118
Home, 262 I
Homo liminalis Ideal, revolutionary, 243–246
abstraction of, 319 Ideas
bare figure of, 179 material force of, 290
definition of, 297 unity with object, 207
depiction of, 65 Identity
disintegration of, 151 black, 164
Hemings as, 285, 291 failure to mask, 260
living immortal human, 50 literary masking of, 273
negation of, 258 marginalized, 253
330 INDEX
Identity (cont.) Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
obscuring, 220 (Kojéve), 147
positive, 252 Intuition, 92, 101, 125
radical reconstruction of, ix Inversion, temporal, 303–305
recovery of, 234 Invisibility, 251
Ignorance, 99 Invisible Man (Ellison), ix, 128, 250
Imagination, 60, 97, 101, 152 Involuntary, 103, 139, 306
Immaculate conception, 280, 291 “I” of subaltern subject, 192
Immortality, 47, 54, 60, 94, 96–102 Islam, 211
“Imperfection of Michelangelo’s Isolation, genealogical, 132
Adam, The” (Barolsky), 65 I think, the, 192
Inalienability, 110 Iustitium (suspension of law), 134
Inclusion, separation from, 276
Incorruptibility, 248
Indifference, 184 J
Indiscernibles, principle of, 2 Jacobinism, 246
Individual James, C.L.R., 212, 243
relationship to state, 224 Jameson, Frederick, 25
valuation of, 258 Japeth, 76
Individual time, 137, 141, 263 Jealousy, 198
Individual will, 105, 106, 109 Jeanson, Francis, 259
Indivisibility of sovereignty, 110 Jefferson, Thomas, 20, 276–295
Indulgence of bad behavior, 236 Joachim, 290
Infanticide, 289, 302 Judeo-Christian tradition, viii, 10
Inferiority complex, 193 Judy, Ronald, 27, 28, 241
Inferiority, ontological, 241 Juridical processes, 275, 280
Inferno (Dante), 174
Infinity, 41, 117
Inflection, points of, 120 K
Inner eyes, 261 Kant (Guyer), 125
Innocence, 72 Kant, Immanuel, 91–93, 101–102,
Insanity, 254 124–126, 192, 241, 301–303
Instability, 203, 205, 207, 212, 223, Kantorowicz, Ernst, 136, 143,
246, 262, 274–276, 282, 297, 317 171, 280
Instantaneous value, 23, 88, 264 King
Institutions, 225 murder of, 301–303
Interactive states of being, 104 Negro and, 5
Intercession of material, 196 sovereignty and, 135
Internal enemy, 134 two bodies of, 171
Internal gaze, 166 See also Monarchs; Sovereigns
Internal time, 84, 90, 93, 101, 108, King’s Two Bodies, The
124, 140, 152, 196, 264 (Kantorowicz), 171
Intervals of time, 23 Knowledge, 57, 98, 100, 146