The generativity of the gift consists in its own opening to indetermination, to unknown results. In its generative action a gift welcomes the newness that is to come; it is directed toward the future. The gift is not a memento incumbent on a past to compensate. It is a continuing promise addressed to the future. In its entirely free and disinterested nature, the gift creates a possibility for something new to happen. Giving belongs to an immaterial universe parallel to that of the world of order, where everything that happens must have a clear cause and expected result. The order of the gift is what offers human relationships an alternative to the prisons of hierarchies and of violence. A gift is generative because it places the totally free and gratuitous nature of the obvious gesture of exchange (giving time) within dynamics of reciprocity and hierarchical constraint (competition, contest etc.).
(2018). Open gift and social bond: Mauss and beyond . Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/127244
Open gift and social bond: Mauss and beyond
Tomelleri, Stefano
2018-01-01
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The generativity of the gift consists in its own opening to indetermination, to unknown results. In its generative action a gift welcomes the newness that is to come; it is directed toward the future. The gift is not a memento incumbent on a past to compensate. It is a continuing promise addressed to the future. In its entirely free and disinterested nature, the gift creates a possibility for something new to happen. Giving belongs to an immaterial universe parallel to that of the world of order, where everything that happens must have a clear cause and expected result. The order of the gift is what offers human relationships an alternative to the prisons of hierarchies and of violence. A gift is generative because it places the totally free and gratuitous nature of the obvious gesture of exchange (giving time) within dynamics of reciprocity and hierarchical constraint (competition, contest etc.).File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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