The Recognition of the Gift

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Marion
Keyword(s):  
The Gift ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Invisible ◽  
Samaritan Woman

The truest and most important phenomena remain invisible but are given phenomenologically as gifts. The gift requires a phenomenology of the invisible. To know God is to receive the gift of love, as the experience of the Samaritan woman who encounters Christ at Jacob’s well illustrates. The gift is always unconditioned and recognized only in and through Christ. Thus, the Eucharist is the very paradigm of the gift, a perfectly given gift, and Christ the gift par excellence.

The gift as colonial ideology? Marcel Mauss and the solidarist colonial policy in the interwar era

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grégoire Mallard
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
International Economic Relations ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Gift Exchanges ◽  
To Receive

Marcel Mauss published his essay The Gift (1925) in the context of debates about the European sovereign debt crises and the economic growth experienced by the colonies. This article traces the discursive associations between Mauss’ anthropological concepts (“gift,” “exchanges of prestations,” and “generosity”) and the reformist program of French socialists who pushed for an “altruistic” colonial policy in the interwar period. This article demonstrates that the three obligations which Mauss identified as the basis of a customary law of international economic relations (i.e. the duty to give, the duty to receive, and the duty to give back) served as key references in the French debate about the relationships between metropolises and colonies in the interwar period. Mauss made this relation between colonial policy and the ethnology of the gift explicit in his book, The Nation. Moving beyond Mauss’ interwar writings, the article traces the genealogy of his later reflections to his involvement in prewar debates about chartered companies.

The Tretyakov Gallery Library

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Author(s):  
Alexandra I. Bolotova
Keyword(s):  
Journal Articles ◽  
State Support ◽  
Soviet Art ◽  
The Gift ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Private Collections

The Library of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow contains over 50,000 books on Russian and foreign art. The collections date back to the gift, in 1899, of the library of P. M. Tretyakov. From 1918, the Library and the Gallery received the benefit of State support; the Library gained books from private collections and as a result of the closure of other museums, and it continued to receive donations. From 1931, copies of Russian publications on art were received on legal deposit, and many publications are additionally acquired in exchange for copies of the Gallery’s own publications. As well as books, the Library contains collections of manuscripts, of press-cuttings, and of exhibition invitation cards and posters. The Library maintains several card indexes, on Soviet art and the participation of Soviet artists in exhibitions, and of journal articles, illustrations, illustrators, and exhibition catalogues. The Library has itself published several reference books.

Passivity, Agency, the Gift, and God

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-151
Author(s):  
Joel Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
The Gift ◽  
To Receive

This chapter argues that theological claims about humanity can open up a new realm of thought for anthropology. This point is illustrated by considering Lutheran theological discussions of the role of passivity in shaping the gift relationship and indicating ways in which they could enrich anthropological debates around this classic disciplinary topic. In particular, I suggest that theological ideas of passivity profoundly challenge standard anthropological accounts of the role of the obligation to receive in the theory of the gift. The final part of the chapter uses the notion of passivity to initiate a consideration of some ways the disciplines of anthropology and theology are likely destined not to reach agreement through interdisciplinary dialogue: most notably on the issue of the distribution of passivity and agency between the human and the divine. Arguments about the nature of the gift are developed through discussion of materials from Papua New Guinea.

La Invisibilidad Sonora: Sobre la Narración del Pathos Vital en las Fenomenologías de la Música de Michel Henry y Jean-Luc Marion

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1149-1184
Author(s):  
Jaime Llorente Cardo
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Objective World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Musical Event ◽  
Michel Henry ◽  
The Invisible

The present study tries to expound the contributions that the recent French Phenomenology can provide concerning a possible philosophical approach to the phenomenon of music. We will focus particularly on Michel Henry´s aesthetic reflection which considers the musical event as an immaterial art, extraneous to the objective world and that seeks basically to make visible the invisible par excellence: the inwardness of the auto-affected subjective life. We will also attend to the examination of the categories that are characteristic of Jean-Luc Marion´s “phenomenology of the gift” in order to justify the affiliation of the musical phenomenon to that kind of phenomena so-called “saturated phenomena” or “paradoxes” by Marion. A type of phenomenon that is alien to the power of the concept and that infringes (as the music itself does) the laws of empirical perception themselves. Therefore, it is about showing the relevance of a “phenomenology of music as such” understood as a way of receive that singular resounding phenomenon as it gives itself, but also – according to Husserl´s suggestion – “within the limits in which it is presented there”.

“I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10): An Ecological Reading of John’s Gospel

2012 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
Susan Miller
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The Gift ◽  
John's Gospel ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Samaritan Woman

In the synoptic gospels Jesus proclaims the imminence of the Kingdom of God but in John’s Gospel Jesus is concerned with the gift of eternal life. Interpretations of John’s Gospel have emphasised the relationship between salvation and an individual’s faith in Jesus. Several passages feature accounts of the meeting of Jesus and characters who come to faith in him such as the Samaritan woman, the blind man, Martha, and Thomas. The focus on the faith of individuals and their desire for eternal life has downplayed the importance of the natural world. An ecological strategy of identification, however, illustrates the ways in which Jesus is aligned with Earth. He offers the Samaritan woman living water, and he identifies himself as the bread of life (6:35), the light of the world (8:12), and the true vine (15:1). This strategy of identification highlights images of fruitfulness and abundant harvests. This approach, moreover, emphasises the presence of God in the processes of nature, and the gift of eternal life is described in terms of the abundance of the natural world. An ecological interpretation of John’s Gospel challenges the view that salvation may be defined purely in terms of the gift of eternal life to an individual, and points to an understanding of salvation as the restoration of the relationship of God, humanity, and Earth.

The Gift of the Apostolic Pardon

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Marie Hilliard ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Eucharistic Communion ◽  
The Church

Meeting the right of the faithful to receive the sacraments can be difficult, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Church needs opportunities to minister to the faithful, especial when there is a danger of death. Remission of sins is of vital importance in these cases. To gain a plenary indulgence, three specific conditions must be met: sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion, and prayer according to the Holy Father’s intentions. A special kind of plenary indulgence, the apostolic pardon, is administered to someone who is in danger of death. It is advantageous because it can be done without making physical contact with the sick or impaired, but also because in times of great need, an apostolic pardon can be prayed for in absence of a priest. Family members and health care professionals can help a patient pray for the apostolic pardon even if he or she is not fully conscious.

Gift-giving and reciprocity in global society: Introducing Marcel Mauss in international studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker M Heins ◽  
Christine Unrau ◽  
Kristine Avram
Keyword(s):  
Marshall Plan ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Market Exchange ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Classic Essay ◽  
To Receive

How do multiple obligations to give, to receive, and to reciprocate contribute to the evolution of international society? This question can be derived from the works of the French anthropologist and sociologist Marcel Mauss, in particular from his classic essay The Gift, published in 1925. The aim of this article is to introduce Mauss’ theory of the gift to international political theorists, to develop a general theoretical argument from his claim about the universality of gift-giving, and to lay out the plan of the Special Issue. First, we explore the basic concepts of gift-giving and reciprocity and how they highlight a type of exchange that differs from market exchange and from other forms of quid-pro-quo interactions. Second, we consider the Marshall Plan as an iconic and controversial example of international gift-giving. Third, we use Martin Wight’s division of international political thought into realism, rationalism, and revolutionism to locate the work of Mauss and neo-Maussian scholars within the tableau of modern international thought. Fourth, we take a look at the interplay between analytical and normative aspects of Mauss’ works and assess the theoretical purchase of these works for international studies. Finally, we introduce the contributions of the Special Issue.

scholarly journals A Kingdom of Priests and its Earthen Altars in Exodus 19-24

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simeon Chavel
Keyword(s):  
Divine Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Social Poetics ◽  
To Receive

This study analyzes the altar law in Exodus 20, the statement that frames it in Exodus 19, and its application in Exodus 24 as a single narrative that denies the professional configuration of sacrifice as essential to religion and divine blessing. It puts the gift-blessing exchange into the hands of every family, and reverses the basic trope of hosting-visiting and the social poetics that govern hierarchical religion: rather than host at his palace through mediating attendants, Yahweh visits wherever he is invited. The study argues that the narrative attacks an Israelian and Judean ideology in which royal success defines territorial extent, shapes the polity, enshrines divine power in temples, and controls divine blessing. It reconfigures the elements such that territory and nationhood are defined by the divine king, who roams freely throughout the land to bless each of his subjects, so long as they invite him to receive a gift.

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