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@article{ Metcalfe2008, title = {Meetings}, author = {Metcalfe, Andrew and Game, Ann}, journal = {European Journal of Cultural Studies}, number = {1}, pages = {101-117}, volume = {11}, year = {2008}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407084966}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227422}, 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 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.}, keywords = {Ritual; ritual}}