Feminine Economies: Thinking Against the Market in the Enlightenment and the Late Twentieth Century [Hardcover]

Judith Still (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1998 | ISBN-10: 071904555X | ISBN-13: 978-0719045554

Contemporary theory has been exercised by the question of the gift - whether there is some mode of relation that escapes the dominant paradigm of market exchange. This work focuses both on the latter part of the 20th century and on the key pre-text of the Enlightenment, a moment in which the market economy as we know it today was becoming established and the terms of today's debates were being shaped. Concentrating on Rousseau's anti-market and anti-colonial stand, set alongside and against Diderot's "Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville" and Sarah Scott's "Millennium Hall", this text also reflects on the relationship of the "anti-market" texts "Republic", "Utopia" and Montaigne's "On the Cannibals".

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Hardcover: 206 pages
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr (April 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 071904555X
ISBN-13: 978-0719045554
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,631,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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