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The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice by Edith Wyschogrod (editor); Jean-Joseph Goux (editor); Eric Boynton (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice about?

What does it mean to give a “gift”? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologists—Maurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyler—and philosophers—Mark C. Taylor, John D. Caputo, Jean-Joseph Goux and Adriaan Peperzak, explore an enigma that has disturbed contemporary philosophers from Marcel Mauss to Jacques Derrida. The essays included in the volume: Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, But Some Things You Must Keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects by Maurice Godelie. The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities by George Marcus Capitalizing (on) Gifting by Mark C. Taylor “Even Steven” or “No Strings Attached” by Stephen Tyler Mothering, Co-muni-cation and the Gifts of Language by Genevieve Vaughan The Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving by John D. Caputo Seneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity by Jean-Joseph Goux Giving by Adriaan Peperzak

Who reads The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice?

Author

Edith Wyschogrod (editor); Jean-Joseph Goux (editor); Eric Boynton (editor)

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823296798

Category

nonfiction