RT Article
T1 Gratitude as a Performative
JF Anglican theological review
VO 103
IS 3
SP 339
OP 346
A1 Larive, Armand E.
LA English
PB SAGE Publishing
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1765912288
AB Rather than a general theory of gratitude, the paper focuses on gratitude as a human dynamic in appreciative recognition of others. The phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas’ face-to-face ethics is discussed as the subject’s call to responsibility for an Other. Following Jacques Derrida’s criticism of how this responsibility binds the subject into a hostage position regarding the Other, Paul Ricoeur repairs the working value of Levinas’ ethics by loosening the face-to-face obligation of the Other into one of reconnaissance, or thankful recognition. Without losing the face-to-face dynamic, the expression of reconnaissance is then investigated through J. L. Austin’s theory of performatives where gratitude is expressed as a speech act, or with the help of Judith Butler, where performativity is an activity expressing a reconnaissance between people over time. Three examples are given at the end.
K1 Performative
K1 Reconnaissance
K1 Responsibility
K1 Phenomenology
K1 Other
DO 10.1177/00033286211023895