Forgiving the Gift HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY Later chapters review theories of

Later chapters review theories of the origins of atonement thinking in fear and traumatic childhood experience

With this straightforward volume

Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources

Drawing from psychodynamic

Russia attracts the most attention

Forgiving the Gift HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY Later chapters review theories ofForgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self interest. The prologue reads Marlowe's Dr. Faustus to show how the play aligns gift and grace, depicting Faustus's