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Meetings
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Abstract This article examines the different theories of meeting offered by Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Bohm, Levinas and Buber. Through this examination we question the common assumption that social life, and more particularly the gift, is based on exc... view more
This article examines the different theories of meeting offered by Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Bohm, Levinas and Buber. Through this examination we question the common assumption that social life, and more particularly the gift, is based on exchange — on the sequence of giving, receiving and reciprocating — which is fundamentally a Hegelian logic of subjects and objects. While many aspects of social life take this form, true meeting is characterized by a quality of grace; it occurs only when the Hegelian world gives way to a presence that has a different temporality, spatiality and ontology. This world is glimpsed, but inadequately conceptualized, in Durkheim s theory of religious congregation, which is characterized by a tension between identity and relational logics.... view less
Keywords
ritual
Free Keywords
Durkheim; exchange; gift; grace; Mauss; meeting; respect; sacred; subjects;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 101-117
Journal
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 11 (2008) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407084966
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)