The Order of Evils - Table of Contents

June 2005
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ISBN-10:
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From Zone Books:
The Order of Evils
Toward an Ontology of Morals
Adi Ophir
Translated by Rela Mezali and Havi Carel

	Preface	11

I	That Which Was and Is No Longer

	First Curve	35

1	Disappearance	41

1.0	Giving Names	41

1.1	Time	47

1.2	Traces	52

1.3	Some One and Some Thing	61

1.4	Problems	79

1.5	Equivalence and Reversibility	83

2	Loss	89

2.0	Irreplaceable	89

2.1	Movement	95

2.2	Reality and Absence	103

2.3	Patients	110

2.4	Loss of Subject	116

2.5	Facts	122

3	Damage	127

3.0	Exchange	127

3.1	Signifier and Signified	131

3.2	Prevention	137

3.3	Claim	143

3.4	Compensation	149

3.5	Translation	156

II	What There Is

	Second Curve	165

4	Presence	169

4.0	Wordless	169

4.1	Encountering	177

4.2	The Experience of Presence	183

4.3	Being an Addresse	187

4.4	Some Others	197

4.5	Testimony	200

5	Excitation	211

5.0	Intensifying Presence	211

5.1	Expression	224

5.2	Heterotopia	235

5.3	For an Other	242

5.4	The Masses and the Market	250

5.5	Surfeit	255

6	Suffering	257

6.0	Disengaging	257

6.1	Touching Words	267

6.2	Duration	273

6.3	Use Value and Exchange Value	280

6.4	The Exit Toll	290

6.5	Having No Expression, Getting No Return	298

	Aside	311

III	The Superfluous

	Third Curve	323

7	Evils	327

7.0	Prevention, Assistance, and Compensation	327

7.1	The Unbearable	339

7.2	Justice and Injustice	353

7.3	Indifference	364

7.4	Responsibility	380

7.5	Urgency	392

8	Evil	403

8.0	The Order of Evils	403

8.1	Good (or the Finitude of God)	422

8.2	Necessity	444

8.3	Freedom	451

8.4	The Limit of Waste	476

8.5	Unto Death	496

9	These Times	519

9.0	Sanctification of the Name	519

9.1	Auschwitz	533

9.2	The Uniqueness Question	552

9.3	The Whole World, the End of the World	579

9.4	Critique of the Historical Present	599

9.5	The End of an Era	615

	Notes	627

	Index	685

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