The Gift of Property: Having the Good / betraying genitivity, economy and ecology, an ethic of the earth

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State University of New York Press, 01/02/2001 - 365 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

Giving and Taking in the Genitive
1
Stage Properties
13
Genitive Properties
27
Sovereign Properties
43
Destined Properties
55
Family Properties
71
Enclosed Properties
93
Domestic Properties
105
Self Possession
149
Squander
171
Stirner Having oneself In the genitive Heidegger Genitivity of Being
190
Giving
211
Betraying
227
Forgiving
245
Bibliography
287
Index
329

Free Properties
133

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Stephen David Ross is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of many books including The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art; The Gift of Truth: Gathering the Good; The Gift of Touch: Embodying the Good; The Gift of Kinds: The Good in Abundance/ an ethic of the earth; and editor of Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory, all published by SUNY Press.

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