Philosophers' Gift (Henaff Marcel
Philosophers' Gift (Henaff Marcel Winner, French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation.When it comes to giving, philosophers love to be the most generous. In recent decades, such…
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Philosophers' Gift (Henaff Marcel
Winner, French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation.When it comes to giving, philosophers love to be the most generous. In recent decades, such thinkers as Derrida, Levinas, Henry, Marion, Ricoeur, Lefort, and Descombes, have made the gift central to their work, haunted by the requirement of disinterestedness.As an anthropologist as well as a philosopher, H naff worries that philosophy has failed to distinguish among various types of giving. For them, every form of reciprocity is tainted by commercial exchange.
Reciprocity, rather than disinterestedness, he shows, is central to ceremonial giving and alliance, whereby the social bond specific to humans is proclaimed as a political bond. The Philosophers' Gift returns to Mauss to reexamine these thinkers through the anthropological tradition. From the social fact of gift practices, H naff
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