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

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 d...

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