Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2008) 1 ; 101-117, Online-Ressource
DDC:
301
Abstract:
Abstract: This article examines the different theories of meeting offered by Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Bohm, Levinas and Buber. Through this examination we question the common assumption that social life, and more particularly the gift, is based on exchange — on the sequence of giving, receiving and reciprocating — which is fundamentally a Hegelian logic of subjects and objects. While many aspects of social life take this form, true meeting is characterized by a quality of grace; it occurs only when the Hegelian world gives way to a presence that has a different temporality, spatiality and ontology. This world is glimpsed, but inadequately conceptualized, in Durkheim s theory of religious congregation, which is characterized by a tension between identity and relational logics
Note:
Postprint
,
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
DOI:
10.1177/1367549407084966
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227422
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227422
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407084966
