Gratitude: an intellectual history

Of circles, lines, and soup tureens

I. Circles. Circles of honor

Benefits and good offices

Ingrates and the infinite circle

Patron saints and the poor

II. Disruptions. Monster ingratitude

The circle and the line

Methodological ingratitude

III. Reciprocity rediscovered, reciprocity suspected. Primitive circles

Denken ist Danken

Gifts without gratitude

A theistic modernity.