duty, 10, 27, 29, 31–32, 40, 133, 140, 153, 296, 299–300, 331–332, 335, 350, 353–355, 359, 363, 370, 393, 412n7

Eagleton, Terry, 89, 249, 260, 322–323n9, 324

Edgeworth, Maria, 10, 244–258, 260

Eiron, 13, 261, 266, 279

Eliot, T. S., 174, 177–179, 182–188, 191, 195nn12–15, 196n18, 197, 281

ethics, 2–3, 7–10, 12–13, 15, 21, 23–25, 27–28, 31, 37, 40, 49, 51–52, 54–56, 126, 143, 263–264, 266, 268, 271–272, 281, 282n6, 285–289, 293–294, 298–301, 302n4, 305–306, 309–310, 321, 369, 407

Ethics of Reading, The, 8, 12, 54, 65, 121, 123, 126, 144n1, 147, 264, 266–267, 271, 278, 281, 282n6, 283n7, 284, 307, 325

exoticism, 368, 410

Fear and Trembling, 3, 14, 16, 22, 24, 26–27

Fish, Stanley E., 399, 413n12, 416

Forster, E. M., 393, 416

freedom, 1–2, 4–6, 12, 136, 289–291, 306, 319, 323n13, 353, 357–359, 379–382, 408, 412n4

Freud, Sigmund, 2, 12, 38, 80, 167, 328, 343

Gift of Death, The, 3, 14, 16–17, 19–24, 26–31, 34n4, 35, 44–45, 48–49, 52, 64, 290, 303, 312, 317, 319–320, 324, 369, 388, 412n3, 416

God, 3, 21, 23–28, 31–32, 39, 42, 48–49, 298–299, 375, 379–380, 383, 386n9, 393, 395, 401

Greek, 4–5, 19, 21, 57, 115, 187, 406

guilt, 5–7, 12, 48, 61, 99–100, 152, 156, 159, 184, 286–287, 291, 302n2, 346, 350, 360–361, 371–373

Gusdorf, Georges, 346–348, 350, 359, 363, 365

Hardy, Thomas, 68, 88, 173–174, 198

Harry Potter, 367, 374, 386n11, 389–390

Hegel, G. W. F., 4, 8, 411

Heidegger, Martin, 19, 273, 393, 397, 412n5, 417

Higgins, Aidan, 203, 214–215, 218

His Dark Materials, 367, 378–384, 388–389

Homer, 180, 189, 193n3, 194n9, 198

Husserl, Edmund, 392, 417

Irigaray, Luce, 342n5, 344

Irish, 10–11, 181, 201–217, 221–224, 226–228, 230, 234–235, 236n4, 237n8, 243–253, 255–258

irresponsibility, 2–4, 6–7, 9–13, 15–23, 25, 29, 34n2, 37–40, 42, 44–48, 50, 53, 58, 60–61, 93–94, 149–150, 153–154, 156, 159, 161–162, 188, 196n22, 246, 279, 308, 312, 315, 327–328, 332, 334, 337, 341, 369–371, 375–376, 378, 382, 384, 391, 396, 407–409

It’s a Wonderful Life, 41, 43–44, 63