Politics of the gift : exchanges in poststructuralism / Gerald Moore.

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Moore, Gerald, Dr

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TextSeries: Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 223 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780748646074
0748646078
9780748688272
0748688277

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of the Gift.DDC classification:

149/.97 23

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B841.4 .M66 2011eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le don (1923-4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, to name only a few, return to 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. Key features. offers a panoramic new perspective on the relationship between poststructuralist philosophy and politics includes in-depth readings of the concepts of the gift and exchange in the thought of Heidegger, Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida and Nancy presents a new account of politics in terms of the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of sacrificing the gift

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index.

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Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le don (1923-4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, to name only a few, return to 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. Key features. offers a panoramic new perspective on the relationship between poststructuralist philosophy and politics includes in-depth readings of the concepts of the gift and exchange in the thought of Heidegger, Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida and Nancy presents a new account of politics in terms of the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of sacrificing the gift

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