Search results for "Gift"

Le culte en quête de signes. Une lecture de la campagne du « Denier de l’Église »

2010

Using a semiotic approach, this article analyses the communication actions of the Catholic Church, from a de-centred point of view. Indeed, rather than focusing on the communicational values of the evangelical message, we examine the way that the Church communicates outside its institutional and spiritual sphere, in the profane world of the media, through the example of the "campagne du Denier" fundraising campaign. This is both a fundraising activity, and a message aimed at Catholics, in a sector - public charity and donations - which is highly competitive. As a result, the Church must (re)define its position, the public that it constructs through its discourse, and its discourse itself, i…

Debito e ingratitudine: la sovversione del tumulo donum nelle Troades di Seneca

2017

Il contributo indaga il sovvertimento delle dinamiche di dono e debito nelle Troades senecane, alla luce dei modelli etici illustrati nel De beneficiis. Nella tragedia, Seneca riscrive la relazione di reciprocità vigente tra Achille e i Greci secondo il modello analogico del debito. L’ombra di Achille, infatti, accusa gli Achei di sottrarre gli honores dovuti ai suoi Mani, dando prova di ingratitudine. Come praemium, l’eroe esige quindi il sacrificio di Polissena, che rappresenta un sovvertimento della pratica rituale dei doni ai morti. Per comprendere il significato antropologico di questa lettura, si opererà un confronto ragionato tra la rappresentazione della prassi cultuale con cui a Ro…

Un'ipotesi sulla revoca della donazione per ingratitudine del liberto

2022

The paper deals with the reasons that led Emperor Philip the Arab to introduce the gift revocation, due to the ingratitude of the Freedman. According to the Author, the reform depended on the desire to remedy the iniquity that could come from the revocatio in servitutem due to the ingratitude of the Freedman, arranged by the reform of Commodus, known through a Modestinus fragment (Mod. lib. sing. de manum. 25.3.6.1). According to the said reform – that could apply in similar cases, as happens in Paul. 11 ad ed. D. 4.2.21 pr. – the ungrateful Freedman was assigned by the judge as a slave to an emptor, who paid the price of the slave to the patronus. The new dominus would also have bought the…

The Gifts to Sicilian Sanctuaries from Spanish Viceroys and Local Nobility

2018

In seventeenth-century Sicily, worship, and the devotion that the noble and aristocratic classes in particular felt for the island’s main sanctuaries and the images that were venerated in them, stimulated the production of the decorative arts. Spanish viceroys and vicereines, and noblemen and women, commissioned many objects in order to offer them to the most important Sicilian sanctuaries as a sign of profound devotion and political power. The strong, intense presence of the Spanish nobility in Sicily explains the Spanish stylistic influences, which are manifested in the Sicilian production of decorative art objects, and especially in jewellery, an aspect that went hand in hand with fashio…

The power of the gift: a perspective of political aesthetics

2019

According to Aristotle (Polit. 1253a) man is a “political animal” and his aim is to live in the community. Guided by this Aristotelian premise, I would like to dwell on the relevance of a relationship among individuals as the foundation of a civil society and the building of a political space. Following the Aristotelian perspective, the relationship among people acquires a political value in reference to the Greek word polis (city). Consequently, the adjective “political” indicates an idea wider than usually acknowledged and may refer to space, objects, and overall relationships among people. According to the natural model originally advocated by Aristotle, the urban space acquires a politi…

Il dono e la festa. Strategie relazionali per un’estetica politica

2021

Attraverso l’analisi di alcuni progetti artistici partecipativi (Alÿs; González-Torres; Tiravanija; Studio Azzurro) che si incentrano sui concetti di dono e di festa, il saggio mira a dimostrare come la relazione tra individui possa essere il fondamento per un’estetica politica. Il termine “politica” è da intendersi, in riferimento a Platone e Aristotele, come mutua cooperazione nello spazio della pólis, mentre il termine estetica si richiama all’idea di aisthesis, cioè una teoria della sensibilità. In questa prospettiva teorica le arti che si incentrano sul dono e sulla festa attivano strategie relazionali utili a sviluppare quella sensibilità che attraverso la cura e l’attenzione per l’al…

Des expatriés de retour frustrés mais fidèles à leur organisation. Analyse d’un paradoxe à l’aide de la théorie du don/contre-don

2021

Cet article analyse le comportement paradoxal des expatriés de retour frustrés mais fidèles à leur organisation à partir d’une théorie encore émergente en sciences de gestion, celle du don/contre-don de Marcel Mauss. En considérant une expérience d’expatriation comme un « fait social total » qui inclut le passé, le présent et le futur de l’individu et articule l’ensemble des dimensions personnelles et professionnelles, nous proposons une perspective renouvelée sur la période du retour d’expatriation et formulons des préconisations managériales qui prennent en compte les mécanismes nouveaux mis en évidence.

Proximal Paradox

2000

In today's societies relationships between near relatives and friends appear to be somewhat paradoxical. Some accounts present them as the social ideal, exalting the solidarity and altruism represented by proximal relationships. By contrast, others point to the social dangers in such relationships when they are conducted in the public sphere. In order to grasp the coexistence of these opposite views, this article attempts to place proximal relationships in the explanatory context of a gift economy, a concept with a long history in anthropology and which has lately been the focus of interest of a significant group of social thinkers.

Gifts, Networks and Digitized Corpora. Rethinking the Territorial Sovereignty in the Principality of Burgundy under John the Fearless and Philip the …

2023

Le marketing tribal électronique: vers une rationalisation sociale généralisée de la socialisation en ligne ?

2010

International audience; L’instrumentalisation marchande du phénomène de socialisation électronique, sans nous questionner plus avant ici sur son efficacité économique réelle, réactualise la question de la rationalisation du lien social à l’heure de la massification d’Internet. Cette rationalisation est considérée par beaucoup de penseurs critiques, à la suite des travaux d’Habermas sur l’Espace Public, comme un affaiblissement, voire une disparition d’un être-ensemble détaché pour partie de la raison calculatoire, de la logique de l’intérêt. Ainsi, les stratégies marketing ciblant la population internaute, que l’on pourrait rassembler en nous inspirant de Bernard Cova et de Michel Maffesoli…