Gratitude
Subtitle: an intellectual history
By: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Waco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781602584495
Subjects: Gratitude; Dankbarkeit
Description: The author examines changing conceptions of gratitude from Homer to the present. In so doing, he highlights the profound cultural impact of early Christian "ingratitude," the release of humankind from the bonds of social and political reciprocity by a benevolent God who gave - and who continues to give - graciously. --from inside jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Of circles, lines, and soup tureens; title: I. Circles. Circles of honor; title: Benefits and good offices; title: Ingrates and the infinite circle; title: Patron saints and the poor; title: II. Disruptions. Monster ingratitude; title: The circle and the line; title: Methodological ingratitude; title: III. Reciprocity rediscovered, reciprocity suspected. Primitive circles; title: Denken ist Danken; title: Gifts without gratitude; title: A theistic modernity.