How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion
…ered as the antidote to negative feeling. But it’s not that simple. In his new book, The Art of Gratitude, Jeremy David Engels identifies gratitude as a political emotion with a close relationship to indebtedness. Tracing the genealogy of the term back to Greek antiquity, Engels follows it forward through Rome, Christianity, the early American republic, and into the contemporary self-help literature. To date, Engels argues, gratitude has served ne…
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