ISBN:
1409450988
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9781409450986
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9781409450979
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140945097X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 170 pages .)
Series Statement:
Classical and contemporary social theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pyyhtinen, Olli, 1976- Gift and its paradoxes
DDC:
394
Keywords:
Mauss, Marcel / 1872-1950
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Mauss, Marcel
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Essai sur le don (Mauss, Marcel)
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Critical theory
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Gifts
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Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950. Essai sur le don
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Social sciences / Philosophy
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PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
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Critical theory
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Gifts
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Social sciences / Philosophy
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Geschenk
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Kulturtheorie
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Kultursoziologie
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Philosophie
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Sozialwissenschaften
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Gifts Philosophy
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Critical theory
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Social sciences
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Gabe
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Gabe
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Genesis; 2 The (Im)possible Gift; 3 The Generosity of the Given; 4 Parasites' Paradise (aka Lice Hopping on the Beach); 5 In/Exclusions: the Gift of Blood and Alms for the Poor; 6 Gendered Economies of the Gift; 7 Making a Gift of Death; 8 The Gift is Not One; Bibliography; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving
Note:
Description based on print version record
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