Leonard Cohen and Philosophy (42 page)

kairos
,
43
,
45

Kant, Immanuel

     
on aesthetics,
80

     
Critique of Judgment
,
84

karu
ā
,
223

katechon
,
41
,
43

Keats, John,
89

Kennedy, John F.,
146

Kennedy, Robert F.,
213

Khrushchev, Nikita,
160

Kierkegaard, Søren,
90–91
,
94

     
The Concept of Irony
,
90–92

     
Fear and Trembling
,
22–23

     
ethical/religious distinction in,
23

     
Fear and Trembling
,
22–23

     
on personality,
91

     
The Sickness unto Death
,
24

     
transcendence in,
24

Kimmel, Michael

     
The Gendered Society
,
30

Knight, Frederick,
46

Kurzweil, Arthur,
172

Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Roshi,
19
,
31
,
218

Lamberville, Pierre de,
147

lang, k. d.,
73
,
97
,
132

Lange, Carl,
204

Lawrence, D. H.

     
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
,
139

library at Alexandria, loss of,
12–13

Lie to Me
(tv show),
205

Light, Alan,
248–49
,
251

     
The Holy or the Broken
,
242
,
248

Lightfoot, Gordon,
58

Locke, John,
43

Lorca, Federico Garcia,
78–79
,
82–83
,
85

     
In Search of Duende
,
78

love

     
as cognitive,
209

     
contradiction in,
134

     
epistemic value of,
108–10

     
as subjective,
118–19

lovers, as fickle,
125

love songs, sadness in,
75

love/strife cycle,
123
,
126–28

Lucretius,
10–12

Lynch, Kelley,
227

“lyrical self” (literary studies),
28

Machiavelli, Niccolò

     
The Prince
,
241

Maimonides,
234

Manson, Charles,
42

Mas, Javier,
37

Masculinity Studies,
30

materialism, mechanistic

     
world of,
193–94
,
199–200

The Matrix
(film),
165

McCabe and Mrs. Miller
(film),
32

Me First and the Gimme

     
Gimmes (band),
73

memes,
243–45
,
252

     
religious,
247–48
,
252

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

     
Phenomenology of Perception
,
103

Merton, Thomas,
219

Meysenbug, Malwida von,
169

Milgram, Stanley,
161

Miller, Henry

     
Tropic of Cancer
,
139

Miłosz, Czesław,
159

minds touching bodies,

     
possibility of,
192
,
200–201

Minkowski, Eugene,
184
,
187

Mitchell, Joni,
ix
,
152
,
223

Mnemosyne,
79

Monk, Ray,
120

Morganbesser, Sidney,
134

Morrison, Jim,
ix

Morrison, Van,
78

Moses (biblical),
19
,
42
,
233

mother as mirror,
106

Mount Baldy Zen Center,
219

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus,
56

music, and religious enchantment,
80–81

music world, luck in,
241

Nagel, Thomas,
195–96

     
on consciousness,
196–200

     
Mind and Cosmos
,
195

Natural Born Killers
(film),
32

“nature’s irony,”
92

negative mysticism,
231

Neo-Platonism,
234–36

Ney, Elisabet,
169

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
30
,
32
,
41
,
83
,
125
,
232

     
The Antichrist
,
131
,
135

     
Beyond Good and Evil
,
45
,
129

     
Birth of Tragedy
,
80

     
The Gay Science
,
129
,
130

     
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
,
127

     
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
,
134

     
on waiting,
45

nirvana,
174
,
239

nothingness, and compassion,
239–40

Novick, Peter,
161

Nussbaum, Martha,
208

Olivier, Laurence,
58

Ondaatje, Michael

     
The English Patient
,
143

     
Leonard Cohen
,
27
,
143
,
149

O’Neill, Eugene

     
Beyond the Horizon
,
229

Othello,
208

Paganini, Niccolò,
79

Palmer, Amanda,
252

Pareles, Jon,
227

Parmenides,
126–27

     
Proem
,
126

Paul (biblical),
41

perception, as bodily action,
103

Phaedo,
94

phenomenology,
101–3

philia
,
111

Plato,
4
,
6
,
48
,
90
,
117
,
119
,
123
,
183
,
195

     
Meno
,
94

     
Phaedo
,
94

     
Phaedrus
,
99

     
Republic
,
94

     
Symposium
,
94
,
109

     
Theaetetus
,
94

platonic love,
94

Porter, Cole,
57

pre-reflective self-consciousness,
104

priestly blessing, Jewish symbol of,
218

Prinz, Jesse,
205

Proclus,
236

Psy

     
“Gangnam Style,”
128
,
131

Pyrrho,
9

Reed, Lou,
ix
,
78

reflective functioning,
102

reflective self-consciousness,
105

religion, evolution of,
245

religious memes,
247–48
,
252

repression,
159

Richman, Jonathan

     
“I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar,”
132

Robinson, Jenefer,
208
,
211

Robinson, Sharon,
170

Rodriguez, Juan,
59

Roquentin, Antoine,
183

Rorty, Amelie,
110

Rorty, Richard,
120–21

     
on irony,
121

Rosenthal, Alexander,
169

Roshi.
See
Kyozan Joshu

     
Sasaki, Roshi

Rousseau, Henri,
186

Rumi,
236

Safranski, Rudiger,
169

Samsa, Gregor,
182

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
21

     
Being and Nothingness
,
105

     
Existentialism Is a Humanism
,
17

     
Nausea
,
183

Savile, Anthony,
149

Schaya, Leo

     
The Universal Meaning of Kabbalah
,
234

Schneider, Pat

     
How the Light Gets In
,
123

Schopenhauer, Arthur,
30
,
135
,
167
,
170
,
171
,
175

     
on asceticism,
173

     
and Buddhism,
173–74

     
on Christianity,
173

     
“Further Psychological Observations,”
178

     
and Hinduism,
173

     
on Judaism,
173

     
on love,
169

     
On the Basis of Morality
,
174

     
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
,
168

     
“On the Sufferings of the World,”
172–73