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The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity [Hardcover]

Alan D. Schrift (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0415910986 | ISBN-13: 978-0415910989 | Publication Date: June 27, 1997 | Edition: 1

The theme of the gift can be located at the centre of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, and economics. The Logic of the Gift offers several important essays on gifts and gift-giving, and adds to them new essays written especially for this collection. The list of contributors includes Emerson, Helene Cixous, Marshall Sahlins, Pierre Bourdieu, Gayatri Chakrovrty Spivak and Allan Stoekl. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcel Mauss, Emile Benveniste, Claude Levi-Strauss, Marshall Sahlins, Rodolphe Gasche, Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigary, Pierre Bourdieu, Allan Stoekl, Robert Bernasc

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

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 27, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415910986
ISBN-13: 978-0415910989
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent companion volume, October 30, 2003

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An excellent compilation of the necessary and relevant texts on the concept of the gift, texts which would be difficult to acquire anywhere else without considerable expense. Seminal American, German and French texts are included. If you are working on the theme of the gift in any discipline, this book is a must have. For continental philosopy, it also makes an excellent companion to J. Derrida's Given Time, a book that frequently refers to many of the texts included in Schrift's volume. Superb choices and editing. The only lack here is G. Bataille, but it is nearly impossible to excerpt from his work - The Accursed Share, vols 1-3, as well as his book on Religion, are highly recommended reading in addition to Schrift's handy compendium.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into chancery, and be sold. Read the first page

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total prestation, pure expenditure, gift event, paternal kin

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New York, Jacques Derrida, Marcel Mauss, The Trace of the Other, Georges Bataille, Madame de Maintenon, Marshall Plan, Tamati Ranapiri, The Hague, University of Chicago Press, Presses Universitaires de France, Kegan Paul, Martin Heidegger, Alan Bass, Allan Stoekl, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Economic Anthropology, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paris Galilee, The Life-Giving Death, The Notion of Expenditure, University of California Press, University of Minnesota Press, Visions of Excess

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Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 7 pages
The Gay Science (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 4 pages
Gifts and Commodities (Studies in political economy) by Christopher A. Gregory on 4 pages
Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature) by Georges Bataille on 4 pages
New Guinea (World's Wild Places) by Roy D. Mackay on page 67, page 309, and Back Matter

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The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) by Mark Osteen in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 130
How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'S CULTURAL POETICS by Adalaide Morris on page 143, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Women, Reading, And The Cultural Politics Of Early Modern England (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Edith Snook on page 138, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Sacred Gaia: Holistic Theology and Earth System Science by Anne Primavesi in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life by William Schweiker on page 228, page 231, and Back Matter

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