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).
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