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The Soul of Reciprocity Part One: Reciprocity Refused
Author(s) -
Milbank John
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0025.00163
Subject(s) - soul , philosophy , intersubjectivity , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , epistemology , subjectivity , constructive , sociology , social science , process (computing) , computer science , operating system
In this first of a two‐part essay, Milbank contends that “Intersubjectivity poses itself both as a problem and as a solution only within the regime of representation that has prevailed since Descartes – although it was foreshadowed by post‐Scottish scholasticism.” The first part, then, is given over to a deconstruction of modern notions of the self in anticipation of the second part, which is a constructive proposal for a recovery of the soul. In the present essay, then, Milbank's intention is to show that “we should abandon the attempt to modify the regime of subjectivity with postmodern trans‐humanism or else phenomenological intersubjectivity, or else again the neo‐Kantian ethics of finitude, and instead attempt to recover the regime of the soul.”