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The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wyschogrod, Edith.
- Series:
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Basel/Berlin/Boston : Fordham University Press, 2002.
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-9679-2
- OCLC:
- 1309044317
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