【人社中心國際學者系列講座】11/22(四)Prof. Dr. Marcel Hénaff (Department of Literature, UCSD), Anthropology of Gift-Giving, Reciprocity and the Genesis of Public Recognition

中興大學人社中心國際學者系列講座

講者：Prof. Dr. Marcel Hénaff

Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.

◆場次二

講題：Anthropology of Gift-Giving, Reciprocity and the Genesis of Public Recognition

主持人：周淑娟 (中興大學外文系副教授)

時間：2012/11/22(四) 10:00-11:30

地點：中興大學綜合教學大樓7樓704室 (台中市南區國光路250號)

摘要：

The question of public recognition has taken on a central place in the contemporary debate in social philosophy. It involves the  status of various identities (associated with ethnic, sexual, gender, professional, generational particularities, or with handicaps) that are not new but that today demand to be affirmed as fairness requirements (see Ch. Taylor, M. Walzer, A. Honneth, N. Fraser, P. Ricoeur). The central question is that of the public granting of respect and esteem. This question can be the object of a purely deductive approach. But its fundamental character can also be understood by reexamining certain social practices of traditional societies. My  aim in this paper is to revisit Marcel Mauss’ The Gift and to show that ceremonial gift exchange is above all a procedure of public reciprocal recognition between groups; this may enable us to establish a symbolic genesis of the political order beyond the social bond (which also exists in animal societies) and to understand how the question of dignity is at the core of social relationships and institutional formations.

講者簡介：

Pr. Dr. Marcel Hénaff

Marcel Hénaff, a philosopher and anthropologist, is since 1988 professor at the University of California, San Diego. He has studied Philosophy at the Universities of Lyon and Paris, and ethnology at the University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He has taught at the University of Copenhagen, at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, at Johns Hopkins University and Kyoto University. His publications include Sade, the invention of the libertine body (University of Minnesota Press, 1999; Orig, French 1978); Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998; orig. French 1991); Public Space and Democracy (coedited with Tracy Strong, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001); Le Prix de la  vérité. Le don, l’argent, la philosophie, Paris, Le Seuil, 2002  [The Price of Truth. Gift. Money, Philosophy, Stanford  U  Press 2010 ]; La Ville qui vient [City on the making] Paris, L’Herne, 2008; Le Passeur de sens [The Carrier of Meaning], Perrin, Paris, 2009 ; Le Don des philosophes. Repenser la réciprocité  [Philosophers’s Gift. Rehtinking Reciprocity], Paris Le Seuil, 2012. His main field of research is political philosophy and anthropology of political institutions and symbolic practices. The French version of The Price of Truth  has received the 2002 the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the French Academy and of the Prize of the Academy of Moral and Political Science [Paris] ; the English version received the  University of California Research  Award in 2011.

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主辦單位：中興大學人文與社會科學研究中心

合辦單位：中興大學外國語文學系

場次一 11/21(三)An Economy in Crisis – A Crisis in Civilization: Anthropological Perspectives on Money, Debt, and Time

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