Given time. I, Counterfeit money /

Given time. I, Counterfeit money /

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Author / Creator:	Derrida, Jacques, author.
Uniform title:	Donner le temps. 1, Fausse monnaie. English
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994. ©1992
Description:	x, 172 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Baudelaire, Charles, -- 1821-1867. -- Spleen de Paris. Mauss, Marcel, -- 1872-1950. -- Essai sur le don. Essai sur le don (Mauss, Marcel) Spleen de Paris (Baudelaire, Charles) Gifts in literature. Gifts. Gifts. Gifts in literature.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11344784

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Other authors / contributors:	Kamuf, Peggy, translator.
ISBN:	022650431X 9780226504315 0226143139 9780226143132 0226143147 9780226143149
Notes:	Translation of: Donner le temps: 1. la fausse monnaie. Includes bibliographical references. Translation of Donner le temps.
Summary:	"Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt. Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years."--Publisher's description.

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Call Number:	B2430.D483 D6613 1994
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