Alan D. Schrift (ed.)

The Logic of the Gift

Toward an Ethic of Generosity
Herausgeber: Schrift, Alan D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The theme of the gift can be located at the center of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, and economics: it is, simply, one of the primary focal points at which contemporary interdisciplinary discourses intersect. Into this context comes a new, indispensable volume. The Logic of the Gift offers several important essays on gifts and gift-giving that are often referred to but seldom read, and adds to them new essays written especially for this collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780415910989
• ISBN-10: 0415910986
• Artikelnr.: 23438457

Autorenporträt

Alan Schrift is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College and the author of Nietzsche and theQuestion of Interpretation (Routledge, 1990) and Nietzsche's French Legacy (Routledge, 1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why Gift?
One: Documents
One: Gifts
One: Gift, Gift
One: Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary
Two: Readings of Mauss
Two: Selections from Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss
Two: The Spirit of the Gift
Two: Heliocentric Exchange
Three: French Re-Appraisals
Three: The Time of the King
Three: Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays
Three: Women on the Market
Three: Selections from The Logic of Practice
Three: Marginalia-Some Additional Notes on the Gift
Four: Anglo-American Interventions
Four: Bataille, Gift Giving, and the Cold War
Four: What Goes Around Comes Around: Derrida and Levinas on the Economy of the Gift and the Gift of Genealogy
Four: The Metaphysics of Presents: Nietzsche's Gift, the Debt to Emerson, Heidegger's Values
Four: Partners and Consumers: Making Relations Visible