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Politics of the gift / Gerald Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Gerald, Dr., author.
- Series:
- Crosscurrents
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poststructuralism--France.
- Poststructuralism.
- Gifts--Philosophy.
- Gifts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept from its origins in philosophy and the social sciences right up to the present Moore shows its central importance for a poststructuralist understanding of the relation between philosophy and politics.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction: Spectres of Mauss; 1. Speech, Sacrifice and Shit: Three Orders of Giving in the Thought of Jacques Lacan; 2. The Eternal Return of the Gift: Deleuze (and Derrida) contra Lacan; 3. Repeating the Political: Heidegger and Nancy on Technics and the Event; 4. 'Pour en finir avec . . .': Democracy and Sacrifice; Conclusion: Variations on a Theme from Nietzsche; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-7186-2
- 1-283-13324-5
- 9786613133243
- 0-7486-4607-8
- OCLC:
- 730151836
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