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An Actology of the Given
About this book
An actology--introduced by the first book in this series, Actology: Action, Change and Diversity in the Western Philosophical Tradition--is a conceptual structure characterized by action, change, and diversity, and that envisages reality as action in changing patterns. The previous book in this series, Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy, reads a number of continental philosophers through this lens. This new book, An Actology of the Given, takes a somewhat different approach: it explores the concepts of the gift, givenness, giving, and other cognates in the light of reality understood as action in patterns rather than as beings that change: and it does so by discussing some anthropology, the writings of a number of continental philosophers, biblical texts, social policy, and a variety of other givens.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Giving in human society
- Chapter 2: Edmund Husserl’s “the given”
- Chapter 3: Martin Heidegger’s “disclosure”
- Chapter 4: Jean-Luc Marion’s conversation partners: Levinas and Derrida
- Chapter 5: Jean-Luc Marion and “the given”
- Chapter 6: Jean-Luc Marion and the God who gives
- Chapter 7: Grace: an unconditional giving
- Chapter 8: A giving polity
- Chapter 9: Givens
- Chapter 10: An actological journey
- Bibliography