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Contents Acknowledgments ix Of Circles, Lines, and Soup Tureens 1 I—Circles 1 Circles of Honor 19 2 Benefits and Good Offices 41 3 Ingrates and the Infinite Circle 57 4 Patron Saints and the Poor 79 II—Disruptions 5 Monster Ingratitude 99 6 The Circle and the Line 121 7 Methodological Ingratitude 143 III—Reciprocity Rediscovered, Reciprocity Suspected 8 Primitive Circles 163 9 Denken ist Danken 181 10 Gifts Without Gratitude 195 A Theistic Modernity 217 Notes 231 Bibliography 301 Indices 341 This page intentionally left blank ...

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