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Enigma Of Gift & Sacrifice
. Ed(S): Wyschogrod, Edith; Goux, Jean-Joseph; Boynton, Eric
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paperback. 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. Editor(s): Wyschogrod, Edith; Goux, Jean-Joseph; Boynton, Eric. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823221660
SKU
V9780823221660
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About . Ed(S): Wyschogrod, Edith; Goux, Jean-Joseph; Boynton, Eric
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). Jean-Joseph Goux is Laurence Favrot Professor of ... Read more
Reviews for Enigma Of Gift & Sacrifice
"Based on a conference held at Rice University in 1999, this volume is an interesting addition to recent philosophically informed literature on the gift. Following a brief introductory essay by Wyschogrod, the volume is divided into three sections. The first, with essays by Maurice Godelier, George E. Marcus, and Mark C. Taylor, explores the social, economic, and political functions of ... Read more