inessentiality

"Negro" steeped in the inessentiality of servitude was set

"Mises and the Moderns on the Inessentiality of Money in Equilibrium." Review of Austrian Economics, 29(1): 1-13.

Reminiscent of the character's determination to prove herself unique, Beauvoir argues that narcissistic women prize uniqueness as an antidote to the obscurity and generality of their inessentiality in a male world (Beauvoir 2010, 684-5).

Inner ambiguity, I repeat, is absolutely Jewish, simplicity is absolutely un-Jewish," (25) By referring to "Jews" and "Judaism," Weininger makes clear that neither is he speaking of a specific race, nation, or religion, nor is he designating a particular individual or a collective, but is addressing "a cast of mind, a psychic constitution, which is a possibility for all human beings." (26) Weininger speaks of Judaism as an abstract Platonic idea, its essence: that of total inessentiality. Weininger's figurative conception of Jewishness exemplifies the rhetorical slippage that characterizes different versions of the myth of Verjudung, in which the "Jew" is transformed into an allusive symbol of modernity.

Do we not see around and among us men and peoples who no longer have any essence or identity--who are delivered over, so to speak, to their inessentiality and their inactivity--and who grope everywhere, and at the cost of gross falsifications, for an inheritance and a task, an inheritance as task?