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336 ⌣ indices Visser, Margaret, 2 Weiner, Annette, 171 Willan, Edward, 105 William of Malmesbury, 87 Xenophon, 23, 24, 31, 41, 58, 112, 239n105 Yan, Yunxiang, 176 Subject Index Abraham (Abram), 60, 62, 66–67, 203–4 Achilles, 20–21, 26–30 Agamemnon, 22, 27–30 alms, 7–8, 14, 68–69, 82–85, 90, 101, 104, 121, 204, 252n9, 296n85; almsgiving and, 9, 83, 85, 91, 216 altruism, 12, 59, 68–69, 80, 105, 215, 227 aqedah, 67 Arthur, 86–87 Athens, 6–7, 14, 31–35, 37–39, 41, 48; influence on political imagination, 33–34; 106, 109 Augustus, 54 Baudelaire, 201–2 benefaction, 41–42, 46, 58, 61, 66–67, 80–81, 131, 134, 139, 149; beneficia, 41; Cicero on beneficia, 44–47 beneficence, 45, 49, 80, 129, 140, 157–59 Beowulf, 86, 107, 218 blessing, 60–61, 63, 70, 103, 130 capitalism, 135, 144, 170, 172, 179, 195, 219; see also economy charis, 19, 21, 24–28, 57, 61, 73–75, 104, 233n27, 234n49, 236n63, 250n106, 251n119 charity, 8, 57, 59, 61, 66–67, 84–85, 103, 105, 125, 133, 139; see also generosity Charlemagne, 85, 87 Christianity, 5, 6–8, 10–12, 14, 25, 57–59, 76, 81, 120, 144, 184, 214, 223, 225–29 Cimon of Athens, 32 clients: see patronage Clovis, 86 consent, 10, 92, 120–22, 124, 126–28, 134, 149, 153 contemplation: see theoria contract, 92, 96, 112, 118, 120–22, 125, 127–28, 132–34, 145, 149–50, 153–54, 177, 214, 284n58, 290n5, 296n84, 296n85; see also covenant courtly love, 87–88 covenant, 64, 66, 101, 127–28, 216, 296n85 Crito, 6, 34, 39, 58 Cyprian, 82, 254n18 Darwin, Charles, 144 debt, 7, 14, 29, 32, 34, 39, 47, 52, 54, 61, 71, 81, 105–6, 121, 160, 197, 200, 204, 226, 228–29, 296n84; of gratitude or obligation, 7, 10–12, 14, 21, 26–27, 30–32, 36, 42–43, 46, 48, 50–51, 57, 68, 70–71, 73–74, subject index ⌣ 337 76–77, 84, 93–94, 101, 108, 110, 126, 129–30, 134, 136, 139, 149, 152, 158–59, 181–82, 202, 209–10 democracy, 122, 141; as arrangement of gift-and-gratitude between rulers and people, 34, 38; as Athenian effort to detach politics from obligations of gratitude, 14, 32–33, 106; see also Athens Didascalia, 82 Diocletian, 58, 77 dissemination, 7, 13, 65, 69, 75, 102–3, 125, 128, 200, 204, 213–14 do ut des, 5, 21; as putting God in debt, 8 duty, 80, 87, 112, 128, 145, 149; generosity as (public or private) duty, 82, 105, 133, 139; giving and: see hospitality; Kantian, 12, 155–60 economy, 11, 140, 171, 196, 199, 203–4, 223–24, 225; of benefit and gratituity, 118–19; of generosity or love, 61, 224–25; “gift economy,” 85, 135, 144, 174–75, 179, 223; market or capitalist economy, 14, 135, 143, 172, 195; monetary economy, 96, 112, 144, 197; “moral economy,” 172; of obligation, 121, 129; “political economy,” 140, 141, 172, 223; separate from gift and gratitude, 13, 191, 195, 197, 207, 209, 212–13 Enlightenment, 5, 11, 13–14, 135, 140, 144, 154, 160, 189, 193, 196, 218 envy, 51, 75, 147, 153, 155, 159, 165, 184, 220–21 Epicurus, 35, 146 Eucharist, 71, 99–100, 102–3, 105, 121, 216, 229–30, 294n73 eucharistia, 19, 58, 71, 74, 250n106, 251n119, 251n120 Euclid, 122 euergetism, 43, 46, 58, 66, 70, 75, 80, 83, 241n12, 252n128 Euthyphro, 24 exchange, 11, 14–15, 24–25, 27, 41, 50, 67, 76, 96, 99–101, 195, 197, 199, 202–4, 207–10, 214–16; in tribal societies, 163–78 fides, 42 freedom, 7, 14, 35, 39, 41, 71, 119, 131–32, 141, 147, 153, 187, 189, 214, 225, 227 French Revolution, 11, 144–45, 173 Freud, Sigmund, 220 friendship, 11, 27, 30, 33, 37–38, 42, 46, 111, 113–14, 125, 139, 143, 152, 184, 215, 242n33; amicitia, 42; guest friendship, 27, 32; “private” friendship, 35, 61 generosity: according to Derrida, 202, 227; English Protestants and, 105; among the Greeks, 27, 29, 31; among the Israelites, 59–61; according to Jesus, 69; in ancient Judaism, 66–67; as justice, 45, 81; according to Machiavelli, 108–9; of medieval kings and nobles, 86–88; according to Milbank, 214; in modern anthropology, 166–70; according to Paul, 71, 73–74; as pinnacle of virtues according to Descartes, 147; especially to the poor, 7, 60–61, 81, 83–84; as “private” and contrasted...