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June 2005
6 x 9, 699 pp.
$38.95/£28.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-51-X
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-51-1

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The Order of Evils
Toward an Ontology of Morals
Adi Ophir
Translated by Rela Mezali and Havi Carel


Preface11
IThat Which Was and Is No Longer
First Curve35
1Disappearance41
1.0Giving Names41
1.1Time47
1.2Traces52
1.3Some One and Some Thing61
1.4Problems79
1.5Equivalence and Reversibility83
2Loss89
2.0Irreplaceable89
2.1Movement95
2.2Reality and Absence103
2.3Patients110
2.4Loss of Subject116
2.5Facts122
3Damage127
3.0Exchange127
3.1Signifier and Signified131
3.2Prevention137
3.3Claim143
3.4Compensation149
3.5Translation156
IIWhat There Is
Second Curve165
4Presence169
4.0Wordless169
4.1Encountering177
4.2The Experience of Presence183
4.3Being an Addresse187
4.4Some Others197
4.5Testimony200
5Excitation211
5.0Intensifying Presence211
5.1Expression224
5.2Heterotopia235
5.3For an Other242
5.4The Masses and the Market250
5.5Surfeit255
6Suffering257
6.0Disengaging257
6.1Touching Words267
6.2Duration273
6.3Use Value and Exchange Value 280
6.4The Exit Toll 290
6.5 Having No Expression, Getting No Return 298
Aside311
IIIThe Superfluous
Third Curve323
7Evils327
7.0Prevention, Assistance, and Compensation327
7.1The Unbearable 339
7.2Justice and Injustice 353
7.3Indifference 364
7.4Responsibility 380
7.5 Urgency 392
8Evil403
8.0 The Order of Evils403
8.1Good (or the Finitude of God) 422
8.2Necessity 444
8.3Freedom 451
8.4The Limit of Waste 476
8.5Unto Death 496
9These Times519
9.0 Sanctification of the Name 519
9.1Auschwitz 533
9.2The Uniqueness Question 552
9.3The Whole World, the End of the World 579
9.4Critique of the Historical Present 599
9.5The End of an Era 615
Notes627
Index685
 
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