Politics of the Gift : : Exchanges in Poststructuralism / / Gerald Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Moore, Gerald,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Crosscurrents : CROSS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le don (1923-4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, to name only a few, return to the concept of the gift explicitly and repeatedly.Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept, from its origins in philosophy and the social sciences, right up to the present, Moore shows its central importance for a poststructuralist understanding of the relation between philosophy and politics.Key featuresOffers a panoramic new perspective on the relationship between poststructuralist philosophy and politicsIncludes in-depth readings of the concepts of the gift and exchange in the thought of Heidegger, Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida and NancyPresents a new account of politics in terms of the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of sacrificing the giftMore about Gerald MooreGerald Moore's Staff Page at Wadham College, University of Oxford"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Spectres of Mauss -- 1. Speech, Sacrifice and Shit: Three Orders of Giving in the Thought of Jacques Lacan -- 2. The Eternal Return of the Gift: Deleuze (and Derrida) contra Lacan -- 3. Repeating the Political: Heidegger and Nancy on Technics and the Event -- 4. ‘Pour en finir avec . . .’: Democracy and Sacrifice -- Conclusion: Variations on a Theme from Nietzsche -- Bibliography -- Index