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Altruism, Gift and Symbolic Exchange : From Comte to Bourdieu / Philippe Steiner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steiner, Philippe, author.
- Series:
- Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
- Theory Workshop ; 4.
- Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026
- Theory Workshop ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- From Comte to Bourdieu
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Altruism, gifts and symbolic exchange refer to a vast set of practices deeply embedded in our market societies. They were successively theorized by Auguste Comte, Marcel Mauss, and Pierre Bourdieu. This book follows the outline of a history that has hitherto been glimpsed only as a series of fragments and which needs to be reassembled in order to see its full scope. This history is structured in terms of three stages: a critique of political economy, a theoretical construction backed by empirical practices, and, finally, an assessment of the social effects of the dissemination of economic knowledge.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Steiner, Philippe Altruism, Gifts and Symbolic Exchange
- ISBN:
- 9789004741379
- OCLC:
- 1553139142
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004741379 DOI
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