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Anthony J. Steinbock - It's Not About the Gift, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

It's Not About the Gift

From Givenness to Loving

Av Anthony J. Steinbock

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In his fascinating new book, leading phenomenologist Anthony Steinbock intervenes in contemporary debate around the idea of the gift through a set of critical readings in which he situates the gift in the context of interpersonal relations. While taking up the key figures in the discussion (Heidegger, Derrida, Marion, Henry, Maimonides), Steinbock proposes the following: that these discussions of the gift are really not about the gift. He demonstrates, through critical interpretations and phenomenological analyses, how the gift only becomes meaningful in the context of interpersonal loving. The gift is not the point: “it’s not about the gift”. The gift becomes most fully what it is, following Maimonides, in participating with others toward their liberation. The point is the interpersonal relation of lover to beloved, which allows the gift to appear.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-07-27
  • Mått: 138 x 208 x 11 mm
  • Vikt: 195 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 156
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781786608260
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Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Phenomenology Research Center at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His many publications include Moral Emotions (2014), Phenomenology and Mysticism (2007), Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology After Husserl (1995) and the English translation of Husserl's Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis (2001).

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"It's Not about the Gift", shows that Steinbock is indeed and excellent reader; his outlines of how givenness have been treated are both enlightening and intriguing. This work has shown rather convincingly that love is not about the gift, but rather the opposite: the gift is about love. Steinbock offers an original contribution to a phenomenological understanding of religion in the twenty-first century. This book is, therefore, highly recommended to anyone interested in how the human condition is given as anything but self-sufficient, lived interpersonally, and how these enigmas of humbleness and loving are experienced.

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