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The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life

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Description for The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life Paperback. In Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.

Over the last five years, corporations and individuals have given more money, more often, to charitable organizations than ever before. What could possibly be the downside to inhabiting a golden age of gift-giving? That question lies at the heart of Timothy Campbell’s account of contemporary giving and its social forms. In a milieu where gift-giving dominates, nearly everything given and received becomes the subject of a calculus—gifts from God, from benefactors, from those who have. Is there another way to conceive of generosity? What would giving and receiving without gifts look like?
A lucid and imaginative intervention in both ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Commonalities
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823273263
SKU
V9780823273263
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About Timothy Campbell
Timothy C. Campbell is a professor of Italian at Cornell University.

Reviews for The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
"A very original, extremely well-researched piece of work that combines theoretical sophistication with depth of literary, cultural, and cinematic knowledge."
-Rosi Braidotti Utrecht University

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