Politics of the Gift
Exchanges in Poststructuralism
Published on 25. April 2011
241 pages
978-0-7486-4607-4 (ISBN)
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Marcel Mauss'' ''Essai sur le don'' (1923-4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Deleuze (and Guattari) and Derrida, to cite only two, engage with 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.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Copyright
- 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
