The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice Paperback / softback
Edited by Edith Wyschogrod, Jean-Joseph Goux, Eric Boynton
Part of the Perspectives in Continental Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
Description
What does it mean to give a “gift”? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologists—Maurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyler—and philosophers—Mark C.
Taylor, John D. Caputo, Jean-Joseph Goux and Adriaan Peperzak, explore an enigma that has disturbed contemporary philosophers from Marcel Mauss to Jacques Derrida. The essays included in the volume: Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, But Some Things You Must Keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects by Maurice Godelie. The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities by George MarcusCapitalizing (on) Gifting by Mark C.
Taylor“Even Steven” or “No Strings Attached” by Stephen TylerMothering, Co-muni-cation and the Gifts of Language by Genevieve VaughanThe Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving by John D.
CaputoSeneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity by Jean-Joseph Goux Giving by Adriaan Peperzak
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:186 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:01/03/2002
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- ISBN:9780823221660
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:186 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:01/03/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780823221660
