{"id":107,"date":"2016-08-03T09:37:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T09:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/?p=107"},"modified":"2016-08-03T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T09:40:45","slug":"107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/2016\/08\/03\/107\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning to map key theorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/files\/2016\/08\/image17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/files\/2016\/08\/image17-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image1(7)\" \/><\/a>Happiness is an A3 page and a sharpie. I have made a start on mapping various theorists I&#8217;m reading against disciplinary areas. Two distinct camps are emerging: those that look at gratitude as a form of capital (the Maussian &#8216;gift&#8217; literature, Bourdieu) and those that see moral generosity as a refusal of reciprocity (Levinas, and to some extent Bakhtin). The first camp sees gratitude as a form of accrual and the second a form of sacrifice. The &#8216;accrual&#8217; camp as being quite cynical about gratitude: it is characterised as self-interested (although not always consciously). In contrast, those that view generosity as a form of moral perfectionism for which the recipient need not enact gratitude are very idealistic.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel, I&#8217;m reading Goffman&#8217;s &#8216;Presentation of Self in Everyday Life&#8217; as a way of thinking about gratitude as performative. Given that so much of the language that surrounds medical settings is suffused with acting metaphors (&#8216;perform&#8217; procedures, take on &#8216;roles&#8217;, operating &#8216;theatre&#8217;, &#8216;how is the patient acting?&#8217;), Goffman articulates the art of impression management very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is an A3 page and a sharpie. I have made a start on mapping various theorists I&#8217;m reading against disciplinary areas. Two distinct camps are emerging: those that look at gratitude as a form of capital (the Maussian &#8216;gift&#8217; literature, Bourdieu) and those that see moral generosity as a refusal of reciprocity (Levinas, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/giskinday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}