Gifts of cooperation, Mauss and pragmatism /

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Author / Creator:Adloff, Frank, author.
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
©2016
Description:xiii, 182 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge global cooperation series
Routledge global cooperation series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10806673
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ISBN:9781138911123
1138911127
9781315692982
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Marcel Mauss and the Foundations of a Theory of Gift-Giving
  • 1. A Dichotomy in Action Theory
  • 2. Marcel Mauss and the French Tradition in Social Theory
  • 3. Mauss's Gift
  • 4. In Conflict of Interpretations: Rereading 'The Gift'
  • Part 2. Homo donator: Pragmatism and the Ability to Give
  • 5. A Pragmatist Action Model
  • 6. Pragmatism on Creativity, Cooperation, and Radical Democracy
  • Part 3. Locating the Gift in Modern Society
  • 7. The Orders of the Gift: Ordinary and Extraordinary Gifts
  • 8. Constituting the 'Game' of Gifts
  • 9. What Motivates Giving?
  • 10. Language, Gift, and Symbolic Media of Communication
  • 11. Micro/Macro: Where's the Gift?
  • 12. Commodities, Value, and the Gift: Marx, Mauss, and Polanyi
  • 13. Mauss and Money
  • 14. The Politics of Sacrifice
  • Part 4.
  • 15. Mauss's Socio-Economic Vision Then and Now: Socialism, Cooperatives, and Solidarity Economy
  • 16. The Gift in Civil Society and Philanthropy
  • 17. Conviviality and Convivialism: Practice and Theory