The logic of the gift : toward an ethic of generosity /
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| Author / Creator: | Schrift, Alan D., 1955- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 1997. |
| Description: | xiii, 334 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2736091 |
Table of Contents:
- More Blessed / Sharon Olds
- Introduction: Why Gift? / Alan D. Schrift
- Pt. 1. Documents. Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson. Gift, Gift / Marcel Mauss. Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary / Emile Benveniste
- Pt. 2. Readings of Mauss. Selections from Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss / Claude Levi-Strauss. The Spirit of the Gift / Marshall Sahlins. Heliocentric Exchange / Rodolphe Gasche
- Pt. 3. French Re-Appraisals. The Time of the King / Jacques Derrida. Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays / Helene Cixous. Women on the Market / Luce Irigaray. Selections from The Logic of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu. Marginalia - Some Additional Notes on the Gift / Pierre Bourdieu
- Pt. 4. Anglo-American Interventions. Bataille, Gift Giving, and the Cold War / Allan Stoekl. What Goes Around Comes Around: Derrida and Levinas on the Economy of the Gift and the Gift of Genealogy / Robert Bernasconi. The Metaphysics of Presents: Nietzsche's Gift, the Debt to Emerson, Heidegger's Values / Gary Shapiro. Partners and Consumers: Making Relations Visible / Marilyn Strathern.
