Gift of Property : Having the Good - Betraying Genitivity, Economy and Ecology, an Ethic of the Earth

, by Ross, Stephen David

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Copyright: 2/1/2001

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General Preface to the Project: Gifts of the Good

xiii

Fifth of several volumes devoted to the good

Human, natural worlds filled with gifts

Nature, general economy of the good, earth's abundance

Plato

The good beyond measure

Gifts and giving, beyond having

Cherishment, sacrifice, plenishment

Plato

The good grants authority to knowledge and truth

Mimesis, beauty

Anaximander

Injustice

Betrayal

Beauty, truth, justice, gifts from the good

Levinas

Exposure

Questions of the project

Precedence in Western philosophic tradition to truth and being, neutralizing the good, insisting on genitivity

Giving without having, without authority, ecology beyond economy

Ethic responsive to the heterogeneous abundance of things in the earth

Introduction: Giving and Taking in the Genitive

(250)

Ousia, parousia

Genesis

Property

Proprius, proprete

Plato, Phaedo

Human beings property of gods

Heidegger

Favors order

Giving without having

Thrownness, Geworfenheit as Jemeinigkeit, mineness

Levinas's critique

Humanity possessors of the earth

Derrida's critique

Heidegger and Levinas do not sacrifice sacrifice

Levinas

Boundless responsibility

Exposition: exposure and expression

Mimesis

Destiny of human beings to own, of things to be owned

Bataille

The curse

Levinas

Generosity, gift

Knowledge as grasping

Dwelling

Aristotle

Oikos, household management, women, children, slaves, and animals

Levinas

Dwelling, hospitality, welcome, intimacy: feminine being

Irigaray's critique

Labor, the hand

Heidegger

Gift of language in the hand

Interrupting, betraying, genitivity

Stage Properties

(14)

Derrida on property

Heidegger on sexual difference

Property, genitivity

Specters of Marx

Genitality and propriety

Production and reproduction

Life and death

Blood, sex, kin, class, food, desire, and power

Property, propriete, le propre

Epekeina tes ousias: beyond property

Ek-stasis

L'ecarte

Mimesis

Hamlet: more things on heaven and earth

Your, my, our philosophy, in the genitive

Heidegger on jointure, giving without having

Derrida

Heidegger favors jointure

Scholars and ghosts

Gift of Dike

Sacrifice sacrifice

Assume inheritance of Marx

Bear witness

Impossibility, giving without taking, responsibility

Kojeve

Sacrificing animals

Genitivity of Marx, Marxism

Inheritance

Witness

Call to excessive, incalculable responsibility

Property without genitivity

Props of property

Mimesis

Table comes on stage, becomes commodity

Automaton, simulacrum, specter

Promised to iterability

Use-value promised to exchange and beyond

Betrayal

Marx glorious, sacred immigrant

Property's mimesis on stage

Genitive Properties

(16)

Ousia, parousia

Aristotle

Thing with properties

Oikos, household

Genitivity in the home

As genitality

Blood, sex, kin, class, food, desire, and power

Plato

Republic

City of pigs

Economy, ecology, of soul

Without genitivity

Cephalus

Justice, property, advantage

Apology, Phaedrus

Possession and being possessed

Divine madness, mimesis, gifts from gods

Writing, wandering

Theaetetus

Knowledge impossible to possess

Laws

Abolishing genitivity

Gorgias

Callicles

Philosophers helpless, others steal their property

Slavery

Virtue not owning or having

Callicles

Let appetites' desire grow without restriction, satisfy every craving

Socrates

Better to suffer than to commit injustice

Better to give than to have

Live for sake of the good, without owning or having

Sovereign Properties

(12)

Hobbes

Desire to have forever, desire for power

Ecolonomy

Smith

Division of labor

Exchange and trade

Labor foundation of property

Trade and exchange

Beyond restricted economy

Rousseau

Freedom, general will

Social contract as unqualified gift

Inequality

Having as injustice

Life and liberty gifts that cannot be given away

Oikos, oeconomy

Public, private economy

Right to property most sacred right

Dewey

Experience not owned

Nothing in nature belongs absolutely

Foucault

Author

Proper name

Destined Properties

(16)

Locke

Possessing truths

God gives world to human beings in common

Appropriate through labor

Right to enclose for oneself, provided leave enough for others

Not licence to destroy

Owning as responsibility

Labor right to property

In the hands

Human beings proprietors of themselves

Giving, taking, as property

Hegel

Freedom, will

Embodiment in external things as property

Lownliness: onlyness, loneliness, ownliness

Kant

Desire

Right

Genealogy, genitivity, and genitality

Household

Wife, child, servant

Rights to persons

Sexual union as property

Hegel

Contract

Sexual difference

Family and property

Economic classes

Proudhon

Property theft

Property impossible

Political economy

Anarchy as dispossession, disowning genitivity

Family Properties

(22)

Engels

Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Production and reproduction

Property linked with blood, sex, wealth, food, desire, and power

Genitality of genitivity

Written history, mimesis

Mother right

The curse

Animal domestication

Family

Division of labor

Monogamy

Prostitution

Genitivity of genitality

Capitalism creates ``free'' and ``equal'' persons

State power

Private property

Commodities

Producer loses control over products

Products wander

Phaedrus

Writing wanders

Mimesis

Social division of labor

Emancipation of women

Emancipation of cattle

Money

Jacoby

Animal domestication

Slavery

Marx's critique of Proudhon

Althusser on Marx

Construction of political economy

As science

Construction of genitivity

As property

Marx on Jews

Why such hatred? Communism as anti-Semitism

Use-value

Commodities

Excess

Household

Ethicoeconomoecology, economology, ecolonomics, economology\ecolonomics

Grip of household on every thing

Excessive circulation

Fetish

General economy

Genitivity as genitality

Excesses of desire

Phantasmagoria of fetish

Mimesis of mimesis

Foucault

Money

Representation

Value

Sacrifice

Marx

Commodities as circumcised Jews

Economology

Giving without having

Cherishment, sacrifice, plenishment

Enclosed Properties

(12)

Living in the earth before genitivity

Without enclosure

Stirner

Right, freedom, as power

Ethics as theft

Enclosure of land, enclosure of women, children, and animals

Schleuning

Freedom as genitivity

An ethic of inclusion, without enclosure

Fetishism as phantasmagoric desire

Fetishism as mimesis

Leopold

Mountain and deer

Double gesture

Game management

Land ethic

Brueggemann

Homelessness and home

Biblical faith and land

Israel, landlessness, wilderness, promise of the land

Botkin, Buffon

Nature as wilderness, to be tamed

Aporia as wandering, mimesis

Brueggemann

Israel

Wanders in the desert

Tempted to hoard, to covet

Giving becomes having, taking

Betraying abundance beyond possessing

Domestic Properties

105

(10)

Aboriginal peoples disenfranchised in relation to land

Double exclusion: in property itself, mine not yours; certain peoples excluded from owning land

Stirner

Negroidity

Wilmsen

Aboriginal peoples, hunter-gatherers, foragers

Unfit to own land

Harris

Whiteness as property

Property rights and race

Affirmative action as distributive justice, equal rights to property

In the genitive

Singer

History of broken treaties with American Indian nations

Sovereignty and property rights used against Indian nations

Regarded as primitive peoples, without rights in property or in sovereignty

Gender Properties

115

(18)

Human relations to themselves and world as property

Property relations as seizing the goods of other peoples

Human identity and property relations

Human life and being as having, taking, accumulating, consuming

Gender

Men require house, woman, and ox

Irigaray

Woman as place for man

Change in economy of space-time

Genre

Kinship

Human kind as masculine

Angels

Intermediary figures

Differential genitive relationships for men and women

Women as property

Women and property

Dworkin

Power of owning as power of self who takes

Male power

Women chattel property

The curse

MacKinnon

Systematic gender inequality

Sexual objectification

Irigaray

Wittig

Society based on exchange of women

Rubin

Production, reproduction

Culturally determined

Political economy of sex and gender

Hirschon

Women as things

Equated with wealth

Exchanged for things

Resisting genitivity in kinship and property

Difference between Western and non-Western, capitalist and noncapitalist views of property, persons, and objects

Rubin

Political economy of sex and gender

Exchange of women

Women for women, women for things

Abusing animals as animals, not as things

Abusing women, children, and slaves as human beings, not as things

Things not just things

Things and persons in complex social relationships of having and meaning

Separability of individuals and things from other individuals and things

Defining condition of individuality

Free Properties

133

(16)

Freedom as infinite desire to accumulate

As having and owning

Individual autonomy

Free will

Minogue

Anything can become active property

Anything can be desired

Infinite will

Schleuning

Property rights

Macpherson

Reich

Freedom and equality

Stirner

Infinite freedom, infinite owning, Becker

Elements of ownership

Locke

Accumulating beyond personal needs

Household management

Use-value

Distinction between public and private spheres

Radin

Personhood and property

Genitivity not generosity

Alienability and inalienability

The curse

Grunebaum

Autonomy principle

Right to have what maximizes autonomy

Sphere of private property rights in labor

Collective rights to land and resources

Self Possession

149

(12)

Stirner

Ego, self, as owner

Abjection

Mineness

My power is my property

I am my power as my property

Marx's critique of Stirner

Material production

Production and reproduction

Saint Max

Saints Ma(r)x

Definite modes of life

Derrida

Disappearance of ghost

Phantasmagoria of commerce between commodities

Wooden table on stage

Mimesis

Not only human

Wikse

Modern identity, authenticity, as self possession

Self as owner

Deleuze and Guattari

Producing-machines, desiring-machines, writing-machines

Capitalism as schizophrenia: production of production

Falling back down on (se rabat sur) production

Body without organs

Wikse

Pathos and poetry of self as private property

Behavior as having oneself

Self as fetish

As sacrifice

Inheritance as genitivity

Ecstasy

161

(10)

Wikse and Stirner

Ecstasy is possession by ghosts

Slavery

Wikse

Extasis as separation from others

Ekstasis as madness, withdrawal of soul

Heidegger

Ek-stasis as interruption

Out of place, displaced

Betrays genitivity

Clement

Syncope, rapture, ecstasy

As disowning

Women and syncope

Fainting

Tremors

Sneezes

Laughter

Epilepsy

Organism

Irigaray

``La mysterique.'' Soul, l'ame, jouissance

Woman as fluidity

Resisting genitivity

Bataille

Ecstasy

Expenditure

General economy

Lyotard

Libidinal economy

Theatricality

Desire's mimesis

Cry and labyrinth

Big fat Marx

Little girl Marx

Jouissance, desire, body

Capitalism as prostitution

Capital as general economy

Mimesis

Ecstasy as betrayal

Squander

171

(10)

Accumulation

Standing reserve

Consumption

Derrida

Heidegger

Singularity

Nietzsche

Learn to laugh! Squander

Derrida

Yes, yes! Affirmation

Bataille

Expenditure

General economy, restricted economy

Squander as giving without return

Intimacy

Genitality and genitivity

Derrida

Virility

Flesh

Adams

Women and meat

Absent referents

Thrownness as mimesis

Betrayal

Derrida

Hospitality

Not only human

Giving without gifts

Generosity

181

(14)

Stirner

Having oneself

In the genitive

Heidegger

Genitivity of Being

Levinas

Sedentary peoples

Being here

Hospitality

Generosity

Femininity

The home

Dwelling

In the genitive

I myself

In the home

Recollection, intimacy, welcome

Feminine

Betrayals of women and animals

Dwelling site of danger and betrayal

Face

Animal face

Nancy

Return to being

Freedom

Surprising generosity of being

Ontotheology

Secret of being

Freedom without causality

Being there

Levinas

Being here

As accusation

Exposed as hostage

In the genitive

Mimesis not only human

Exposure as mimesis

Sustenance

195

(16)

Sustainable practices

Environmental, ecological fascism

Authoritarianism

Betrayal

The greatest values become the worst

Naess

Friluftsliv

Touching the earth lightly

Schumacher

Sustenance as permanence

Small is beautiful

Choosing sustenance

Living like the bee

Waste

Monsters

Global economy

Berry

Proper human scale

Natural scale

Goodness and wickedness

Economics of betrayal

Ecolonomics

Schumacher

Global economy

Dual economy

Nobler economics

Buddhism

Local practices

Intermediate technology

Large-scale organization

Economics of human scale

Berry

Sustainability

Otherwise

Resistant to propriety

Middle, intermediariness

Wilderness as intermediariness

Harmony

Love and care

Anything but propriety

Giving

211

(16)

Berry

Two economies, great and small

Vernacular of general and restricted economy

Kingdom of God

Topsoil

Limits

Authority

Prescription

Sacrificing sacrifice

Betrayal

Derrida

Gift of Death

Arrival of responsibility

Responsibility, liberty, singularity, infinite goodness

Giving as taking

Platonic incorporation of death

Phaedo

Assembling of self

Philosophy as obsession with death

Question of the obsession

Its Christianity

Economy of sacrifice

Mysterium tremendum

Irresponsibility in responsibility

Betrayal

Secret of the secret

Dasein's singularity

Aporia of responsibility, betraying having

Woman

Interrupting masculine economy of sacrifice

Oikos

Disowning genitivity

Economology

Tout autre est tout autre

Betraying les autres

Betraying

227

(18)

Promised to iterability

As betrayal

Betraying betrayal as sacrifice, (the step) (not) (beyond) having, as (for) giving

Ousia in parousia

Mimesis

Property on stage

Be and bet of betrayal

Beyond as mimesis

As, as, as

Promised to mimesis, as mimesis, betrayed in betrayal

Beauty, truth, goodness as gifts

Cannot be had

Call

Zusage

Cherishment, sacrifice, plenishment

Expressivity and responsivity

Three concluding gestures, mimetic betrayals

First, rewriting guidelines for plenishment in exuberance of betrayal

Second, philanthropy, philogyny, philogeny, philokyny

Ecolonomics, economology

Forgiving

245

(6)

Forgiveness as extreme giving

Betraying authority

Otherwise

For-giving as not beyond

Beyond transgression, without holding onto sin

Without insisting on knowing and having the sin

As betrayal

Betraying the beyond

Spinoza's gaudeo and laetitia

Unrestrained gladness

Derrida's yes, yes! Joy as not beyond itself

Locke

Mother's grief at death of her child

Mother's forgiveness, betraying the loss

Surpassing having

Betrayal betrayed

Notes

251

(36)

Bibliography

287

(42)

Index

329

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