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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457002503321

Autore

Moore Gerald, Dr

Titolo

Politics of the gift / / Gerald Moore [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-7186-2

1-283-13324-5

9786613133243

0-7486-4607-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Crosscurrents

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Poststructuralism - France

Gifts - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.