The enigma of gift and sacrifice / co-edited by Edith Wyschogrod, Jean-Joseph Goux, and Eric Boynton.

Date:
2002
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Publication/Creation

New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.

Physical description

vi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition

1st ed.

Contents

Some things you give, some things you sell, but some things you must keep for yourselves: what Mauss did not say about sacred objects / Maurice Godelier -- The gift and globalization: a prolegomenon to the anthropological study of contemporary finance capital and its mentalities / George E. Marcus -- Capitalizing (on) gifting / Mark C. Taylor -- "Even Steven," or "No strings attached" / Stephen A. Tyler -- Mothering, co-muni-cation, and the gifts of language / Genevieve Vaughan -- The time of giving, the time of forgiving / John D. Caputo -- Seneca against Derrida: gift and alterity / Jean-Joseph Goux -- Giving / Adriaan Peperzak.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([Fordham perspectives in continental philosophy]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

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