Gratitude as a Performative
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 h...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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SAGE Publishing
2021
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Anglican theological review
Jahr: 2021, Band: 103, Heft: 3, Seiten: 339-346 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Phenomenology
B Reconnaissance B Performative B Responsibility B Other |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-6214 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Anglican theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/00033286211023895 |