(the) American (Novel of)

culture: African American, 18–21; black,
18–21, 23; Moslem, 241–43; Nigerian,
18–21; oral, 236–37n10; pop, 20
Curious Correspondence, A (Meridith), 69
Das Efx, 20
Dead Serious (Das Efx), 20
death, 100
Debord, Guy, 111
De Certeau, Michel, 110
Def Jam: Funkmaster Flex & Big Kap The
Tunnel, 24–25
de Laclos, Choderlos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses,
71, 77
Deleuze, Gilles, 106–7
de Polignac, François, 236n9
depression, 73
De Quincey, Thomas, 126–27
Derrida, Jacques, 108
de Sade, Marquis, 123–24
desire, 91. See also love
de Spinoza, Benedict: The Ethics, 73; on
love, 73
Differend: Phrases in Dispute, The
(Lyotard), 63–64
Different Drum, The (Peck), 174–75
“Discourse on Language, The”
(Foucault), 62
disetiquette, 121–33
“dissing”: definition, 17–18. See also music
Dostoevski, Fyodor, 92
Douglas, Mary, 96
driving: etiquette, 4
Dupri, Jermaine, 28
Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee), 100
eating, 184–88
Ecclesiazusae (Aristotle), 11
8 Mile, 22–23; review in The New York
Times, 23
Elias, Norbert, 189, 194–95
Elle, 144
Ellis Island, 187
Ellison, Ralph: “Battle Royal,” 27;
Invisible Man, 18, 27
Index
255
Emily Post’s Etiquette, 61
Eminem, 22–23, 28, 212–13, 216,
219n14, 220n17
Emma (Austen), 136–50
entertainment, 8
envy, 144. See also jealousy
epic, 15
Epictetus, 167
eros, 190–94; Michel Foucault on, 191
Esalen Institute, 190
ethics: aesthetics and, 4–5; versus
etiquette, 2, 162, 200, 242; grace and,
204; impolitics and, 59–62; reliance
on etiquette, 3
Ethics (Aristotle), 8–9, 191
Ethics, The (de Spinoza), 73
etiquette: of adoption, 49–58; anxiety
over, 214; of Aristotle, 7–15; automobile
protocol, 4; of bodybuilders,
41–47; boundaries of, 95–104, 106;
bourgeois, 211; breach of, 41–47; of
cell phones, 117–19, 190; of civility,
175, 177; class structure and, 211;
clothing, 239–48; coldness and civility,
69–94; of comedy, 10–11; conduct
and, 163–69; conformity and, 240;
definition, 2, 49; development, 188;
driving, 4; of eating, 184–88; eros
and, 190–94; versus ethics, 2, 162,
200, 242; ethics reliance on, 3;
etymology, 240; expectations of, 49;
fashion, 239–48; gay, 33–39; Greek,
224, 234–35n3; heroic, 224; history
of, 60; imperative force of, 63,
67–68n8; impolitics and, 59–68;
international business, 203; lapse in,
44; loss of, 211–12; mastery of,
184–85; of music, 17–31; newsworthiness,
207; of outdoor spaces,
171–79; paradoxical quality of, 240;
politics and, 207–22, 223–38; in
public places, 4; ritual of, 5; rules
versus laws of, 203; of the 1960s, 190;
sexual, 4; of silence, 105–15; timing
and, 156; utility of, 151–62; for white