The Soul of Reciprocity Part Two: Reciprocity Granted

In The Soul of Reciprocity Part One: Reciprocity Refused, the case for reciprocity was established in a negative manner. It was shown that its refusal is a crucial aspect of modernity: the result of the interacting influences of modern capitalist economics and an ontotheological outlook that is explicitly modern, not ancient. A disdain for reciprocity thus lies at modernity's very heart. The soul, which, I argued, it allied to reciprocity, was rejected in modernity and the subject was rhetorically advocated in its place. This is true for three crucial instances: Deleuzian transhumanism, Levinasian intersubjectivity and neo-Kantian neo-humanism. All three only re-work the Cartesian and Kantian turn to the subject, which was also a turn away from the soul. The Soul of Reciprocity Part Two: Reciprocity Restored, establishes a positive case for a postmodern retrieval of the premodern soul of reciprocity.