33 definitions
Boredom (n.) is the twin of the orgiastic: the indifference that levels the world is also what lets the demonic return.
Christianity (n.) is Platonism for the people, Nietzsche said, and Patočka grants it is true, but only up to a point.
Christianity (n.) has not yet come to itself: what has not yet arrived at it is Christianity.
Democracy (n.) can slide into totalitarianism, since both share an indifference to anything but the role.
The Demonic (n.) is originally defined as irresponsibility, a space where no one yet hears the call to answer for oneself.
Dread (n.) is being commanded by a gaze you never see, held from within by a power that stays out of view.
The Enemy (n.) is the figure one loses after the war, and with it perhaps the very possibility of the political.
Equality (n.) ends as the quantifiable equality of roles, not of persons.
Force (n.) has become the modern face of being, and man becomes a quantifiable power among forces.
The Front (n.) is where enemies are joined face to face, as though conjoined in extreme proximity.
Incorporation (n.) is how one mystery swallows another: the Platonic soul keeps the orgiastic inside it as a subordinate.