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The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice / ed. by Edith Wyschogrod, Jean-Joseph Goux, Eric Boynton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823221660
  • 9780823296798
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  • 177/.7
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Economy of Sacrifice -- 1 Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, but Some Things You Must keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects -- 2 The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities -- 3 Capitalizing (on) Gifting -- Part 2. Community, Gift, and Sacrifice -- 4 "Even Steven" or "No Strings Attached" -- 5 Mothering, Co-muni-cation, and the Gifts of Language -- Part 3. The Gift of Philosophical Discourse -- 6 The Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving -- 7 Seneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity -- 8. Giving -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Economy of Sacrifice -- 1 Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, but Some Things You Must keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects -- 2 The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities -- 3 Capitalizing (on) Gifting -- Part 2. Community, Gift, and Sacrifice -- 4 "Even Steven" or "No Strings Attached" -- 5 Mothering, Co-muni-cation, and the Gifts of Language -- Part 3. The Gift of Philosophical Discourse -- 6 The Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving -- 7 Seneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity -- 8. Giving -- Contributors -- Index

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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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In English.

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