Gift and economy : ethics, hospitality and the market / edited by Eric R. Severson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Economy, gift and mystery / Eric R. Severson -- pt. I: Anatomy of a gift. Presencing of the gift and the economy of exchange / Sharon R. Harvey -- The excess of the gift in Jean-Luc Marion / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- History as sacrament / Craig Hovey -- Gift, love and divine commands / Joshua Kira -- The gifts of God for the people of God : communion as Derrida's impossible gift / John McAteer -- The hermeneutics of the gift : a dialogue / Richard Kearney, Eric R. Severson -- pt. II: Economy and power. Sign and economy / John Brittingham -- Process philosophy as the onto-theo-logic of state regulated capitalism / John W. Wright -- Modern philosophy and the economic subversion of natural and ecclesial personhood / Eric Manchester -- A reflection on Wesley's socio-economic ethics and the poverty of third world economies / Paul Boafo -- Is Christian hope a form of long term economy? : an argument from the writings of Albert Camus / Joseph Bankard -- pt. III: Grace, gift and exchange. Gifts of death or subjects of grace? / Ben Suriano -- Can Augustine welcome intersexed bodies into Heaven? / Teri Merrick -- On recovering the gift for the market economies of exchange / Randy Ramal.

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Is it possible to really give a gift? This may, at first glance, seem like a peripheral question for philosophy, which normally directs its attention to seemingly bigger questions. The dynamics of the gift move into philosophy from anthropology and sociology, but Jacques Derrida insists that this question belongs at the heart of philosophy. This volume takes up Derrida's challenge to invest in the question of a gift, and the relationship between gift and economy. The powerful and corruptive f ...

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