Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice Contributor(s): Wyschogrod, Edith (Editor), Goux, Jean-Joseph (Editor), Boynton, Eric (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0823221660 ISBN-13: 9780823221660 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: What does it mean to give a gift? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologistsMaurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tylerand philosophersMark C. Taylor, John D. Caputo, Jean-Joseph Goux and Adriaan Peperzak, explore an enigma that has disturbed contemporary philosophers from Marcel Mauss to Jacques Derrida.The essays included in the volume: Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, But Some Things You Must Keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects by Maurice Godelie.The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities by George MarcusCapitalizing (on) Gifting by Mark C. TaylorEven Steven or No Strings Attached by Stephen TylerMothering, Co-muni-cation and the Gifts of Language by Genevieve VaughanThe Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving by John D. CaputoSeneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity by Jean-Joseph Goux Giving by Adriaan Peperzak |
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BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships - Philosophy | Religious - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
Dewey: 177.7 |
LCCN: 2001051111 |
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.02" W x 8.88" (0.63 lbs) 186 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
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Publisher Description: What does it mean to give a gift? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologists-Maurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyler-and philosophers-Mark C. Taylor, John D. Caputo, Jean-Joseph Goux and Adriaan Peperzak, explore an enigma that has disturbed contemporary philosophers from Marcel Mauss to Jacques Derrida.The essays included in the volume: Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, But Some Things You Must Keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects by Maurice Godelie.The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities by George MarcusCapitalizing (on) Gifting by Mark C. TaylorEven Stevenor No Strings Attachedby Stephen TylerMothering, Co-muni-cation and the Gifts of Language by Genevieve VaughanThe Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving by John D. CaputoSeneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity by Jean-Joseph Goux Giving by Adriaan Peperzak |
Contributor Bio(s): Wyschogrod, Edith: - Edith Wyschogrod is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought emerita at Rice University. The most recent of her books are An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others; Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy; and a second edition of Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics (Fordham).Goux, Jean-Joseph: - Jean-Joseph Goux is Laurence Favrot Professor of French Studies at Rice University (emeritus). He was associated with the Tel Quel group in the late 1960s. |