Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (1983) – Updated in 2007 as The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World Lewis Hyde’s The Gift has gone through a couple of subtitle changes but remains a foundational text in understanding the etymology of gifts and generosity. Each chapter addressesContinue reading “The Gift”
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Life in Service is a Gift
Richard Gunderman, We Come to Life with those we Serve, Indiana University Press (2017) What do Victor Frankenstein, Ivan Ilyich, Albert Schweitzer, Rebecca, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, John Wooden, Bill Cook, Ebenezer Scrooge and Vincent van Gogh all have in common? Well in the case of We Come to Life with those we Serve theyContinue reading “Life in Service is a Gift”
Civil Society: A Call for the best of Humanity
Michael Edwards, Civil Society 4th Edt., (2020) At its best, civil society is the story of ordinary people living extraordinary lives through their relationships with one another, driven forward by a vision of the world that is ruled by love and compassion, non-violence, and solidarity. At its worst, it is little more than a slogan,Continue reading “Civil Society: A Call for the best of Humanity”
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