The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity

by Schrift,Alan D.

• ISBN13: 9780415910996
• ISBN10: 0415910994
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-06-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The theme of the gift can be located at the center of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, and economics: it is, simply, one of the primary focal points at which contemporary interdisciplinary discourses intersect. Into this context comes a new, indispensable volume.The Logic of the Giftoffers several important essays on gifts and gift-giving that are often referred to but seldom read, and adds to them new essays written especially for this collection.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
More Blessed
Introduction: Why Gift?	p. 1
Documents
Gifts	p. 25
Gift, Gift	p. 28
Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary	p. 33
Readings of Mauss
Selections from Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss	p. 45
The Spirit of the Gift	p. 70
Heliocentric Exchange	p. 100
French Re-Appraisals
The Time of the King	p. 121
Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays	p. 148
Women on the Market	p. 174
Selections from The Logic of Practice	p. 190
Marginalia - Some Additional Notes on the Gift	p. 231
Anglo-American Interventions
Bataille, Gift Giving, and the Cold War	p. 245
What Goes Around Comes Around: Derrida and Levinas on the Economy of the Gift and the Gift of Genealogy	p. 256
The Metaphysics of Presents: Nietzsche's Gift, the Debt to Emerson, Heidegger's Values	p. 274
Partners and Consumers: Making Relations Visible	p. 292
Notes on Contributors	p. 313
Works Cited	p. 315
Selected Bibliography	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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