The Gift of Property: Having the Good / betraying genitivity, economy and ecology, an ethic of the earthSUNY Press, 01/02/2001 - 347 páginas This is the fifth volume in an ongoing project reexamining the philosophic tradition from the standpoint of the good. The ongoing project seeks to understand humanity s relation to nature in a profoundly ethical way. This volume develops an understanding in ecological terms. It does so by examining the notion of giving in relation to having, calling into question the ways in which being human, and being itself, have been understood in terms of what one must have and possess in order to live well goods, qualities, a body, a dwelling, freedom, land, children, family, things, knowledge, power, authenticity all forms of genitivity. Having is explored in terms of ecstasy, squander, generosity, and sustenance, then as betrayal and forgiveness. Betrayal is understood as the expressiveness of things, always promised to circulation in abundance beyond containment, use or profit: the circulation of goods and commodities together with the circulation of images, meanings, language, and writing. |
Índice
Stage Properties | 13 |
Genitive Properties | 27 |
Sovereign Properties | 43 |
Destined Properties | 55 |
Family Properties | 71 |
Enclosed Properties | 93 |
Domestic Properties | 105 |
Gender Properties | 115 |
Squander | 171 |
Generosity | 181 |
Sustenance | 195 |
Giving | 211 |
Betraying | 227 |
Forgiving | 245 |
Notes | 251 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abundance accumulation Anaximander animals Aristotle arrival authority becomes belongs betraying betrayal body without organs Callicles capitalism chap Chapter circulation commodities creatures and things curse Dasein death Deep Ecology Derrida Descartes desire destiny disowning dwelling earth ecology economy of sacrifice endless Engels ethical everything evokes excessive exchange exposure express fetish forgiveness freedom generosity genitivity ghosts gift given giving Gorgias Hegel Heidegger hope human impossible individual infinite injustice insists interruption justice kinds labor land Levinas liberty limits linked live Marx Marx's means mimēsis nature never Nietzsche one's oneself ousia ownership parousia perhaps person Phaedo Phaedrus philosophy Plato possession possibility Press production promise propriety props of property proximity question relation resist responsibility restricted economy sake schizophrenia Schleuning social social contract society Socrates speak specter Specters of Marx squander Stirner taking tion Trans truth understand use-value Wikse women York