An actology–introduced by the first book in this series, Actology: Action, Change and Diversity in the Western Philosophical Tradition–is a conceptual structure characterized by action, change, and diversity, and that envisages reality as action in changing patterns. The previous book in this series, Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy, reads a number of continental philosophers through this lens. This new book, An Actology of the Given, takes a somewhat different approach: it explores the concepts of the gift, givenness, giving, and other cognates in the light of reality understood as action in patterns rather than as beings that change: and it does so by discussing some anthropology, the writings of a number of continental philosophers, biblical texts, social policy, and a variety of other givens.
About the author
Malcolm Torry is a priest in the Church of England who for thirty-four years served full-time in South London parishes and is now priest in charge of St Mary Abchurch in the city of London. Since 1984 he has contributed to the global Basic Income debate and has published numerous books, chapters, and articles on Basic Income and also on religious and faith-based organizations. This is the sixth book in his philosophical Actological Explorations series.
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