Gifting the other, or why are nineteenth-century German bourgeois men acting like Trobriand Islanders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3868053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay Geller (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-307 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Research on Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2050303213506474 |
| OpenAlex | W2002603052 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Taking its lead from analyses of gift exchange by Marcel Mauss and Marshall Sahlins as well as of contact by Charles Long and Jonathan Z Smith, this article elaborates a theory of the exchange, among dominant social subjects, of representations of their subjected proximate others in order to rectify the crisis precipitated by contact with otherness that threatens their claims to autonomy, authority, homogeneity, and universality. Specifically it situates the polemical exchange of representations of women among Friedrich Schlegel (Lucinde/ Lucinde), G W F Hegel (Antigone/ Phenomenology of Spirit), and Karl Gutzkow (Wally/ Wally the Skeptic) as exemplary German male bourgeois efforts to rectify the crises to subject formation generated, in part, by the emergence of gender-coded bifurcated bourgeois society and signaled by the Kantian and French Revolutions. The public dissemination of apotropaic representations screened the dependence upon proximate others by, and determined the positions among, exchange participants as well as maintained structures of domination
Bourgeoisie · Epistemology · German · Hegelianism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Women and the public sphere in the age of the French Revolution
The ritual process
Savage systems
Purity and Danger
Imperial Eyes
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
To take place
Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
The dialectic of enlightenment
The Other Jewish QuestionIdentifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Exchange and Power in Social Life
Imagining Religion
The Gift
Rereading Femininity
The Concept of Irony, with Constant Reference to Socrates
Exchange and power in social life
The Mouth of Heaven
The Suture of an Allusion
The Mouth of Heaven
The Ritual Process
Dialectic of Enlightenment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |