| Description |
xiii, 334 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
More Blessed / Sharon Olds -- Introduction: Why Gift? / Alan D. Schrift -- Pt. 1. Documents. Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson. Gift, Gift / Marcel Mauss. Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary / Emile Benveniste -- Pt. 2. Readings of Mauss. Selections from Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss / Claude Levi-Strauss. The Spirit of the Gift / Marshall Sahlins. Heliocentric Exchange / Rodolphe Gasche -- Pt. 3. French Re-Appraisals. The Time of the King / Jacques Derrida. Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays / Helene Cixous. Women on the Market / Luce Irigaray. Selections from The Logic of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu. Marginalia - Some Additional Notes on the Gift / Pierre Bourdieu -- Pt. 4. Anglo-American Interventions. Bataille, Gift Giving, and the Cold War / Allan Stoekl. What Goes Around Comes Around: Derrida and Levinas on the Economy of the Gift and the Gift of Genealogy / Robert Bernasconi |
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The Metaphysics of Presents: Nietzsche's Gift, the Debt to Emerson, Heidegger's Values / Gary Shapiro. Partners and Consumers: Making Relations Visible / Marilyn Strathern |
| Summary |
In recent years, attacks upon fundamental notions of social welfare have spurred widespread discussion concerning the nature of gifts and gift giving. What assumptions about gift giving and generosity are at work in our society? The Logic of the Gift is an interdisciplinary collection that brings together some of the classic essays on gifts and gift giving, alongside work especially written for this volume |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p315-330. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-330) and index |
| Subject |
Generosity.
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Gifts.
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| Author |
Schrift, Alan D., 1955-
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| LC no. |
96041607 |
| ISBN |
0415910986 |
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0415910994 (paperback) |
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