Alan D. Schrift (ed.)

The Logic of the Gift

Toward an Ethic of Generosity
Herausgeber: Schrift, Alan D

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Logic Of The Gift is an interdisciplinary collection that brings together some of the classic essays on gifts and gift giving, alongside work especially written for this volume.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415910996
• ISBN-10: 0415910994
• Artikelnr.: 22397736

Autorenporträt

Alan Schrift is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College and the author of Nietzsche and theQuestion of Interpretation (Routledge, 1990) and Nietzsche's French Legacy (Routledge, 1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why Gift?
One: Documents
One: Gifts
One: Gift, Gift
One: Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary
Two: Readings of Mauss
Two: Selections from Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss
Two: The Spirit of the Gift
Two: Heliocentric Exchange
Three: French Re-Appraisals
Three: The Time of the King
Three: Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays
Three: Women on the Market
Three: Selections from The Logic of Practice
Three: Marginalia-Some Additional Notes on the Gift
Four: Anglo-American Interventions
Four: Bataille, Gift Giving, and the Cold War
Four: What Goes Around Comes Around: Derrida and Levinas on the Economy of the Gift and the Gift of Genealogy
Four: The Metaphysics of Presents: Nietzsche's Gift, the Debt to Emerson, Heidegger's Values
Four: Partners and Consumers: Making Relations Visible