The Question of the Gift (eBook, PDF)

Essays Across Disciplines
Redaktion: Osteen, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. In addressing these questions, contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields, but also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to forge innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136481369
• Artikelnr.: 39911329

Autorenporträt

Mark Osteen is Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at Loyola College, Baltimore. He is the author of American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture (2000), and The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet (1995), the editor of the Viking Critical Edition of Don DeLillo's White Noise, and co-editor, with Martha Woodmansee, of The New Economic Criticism (Routledge, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Questions of the Gift Mark Osteen Part I: Redefining
Reciprocity 1. A Free Gift Makes No Friends James Laidlaw 2. Unbalanced
Reciprocity: Asymmetrical Gift-Giving and Social Hierarchy in Rural China
Yunxiang Yan 3. Unpacking the Gift: Illiquid Goods and Empathetic Dialogue
Lee Anne Fennell Part II: Kinship, Generosity and Gratitude: Ethical
Foundations 4. The Patriarchal Narratives of Genesis and the Ethos of Gift
Exchange Charles H. Hinnant 5. The Ethics of Generosity and Friendship:
Aristotle's Gift to Nietzsche? Martha Kendral Woodruff 6. Adam Smith and
the Debt of Gratitude Eun Kyung Min Part III: The Gift and Artistic
Commerce 7. Catullus and the Gift of Sentiment in Republican Rome Jacqui
Sadashige 8. Gabriele D'Annunzio: The Art of Squandering Nicoletta Pireddu
9. Conrad's Guilt-Edged Securities: 'Karain: A Memory' via Simmel and
Benjamin Anthony P. Fothergill 10. Formed by Homages: H. D., Robert Duncan,
and the Spirit of the Gift Stephen Collis Part IV: Posing New Questions
11. Gift or Commodity? Mark Osteen 12. The Ghost of the Gift: The
Unlikelihood of Economics Antonio Callari 13. Give the Ghost a Chance! A
Comrade's Shadowy Addendum Jack Amariglio 14. The Pleasures and Pains of
the Gift Andrew Cowell