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The enigma of gift and sacrifice

Edith Wyschogrod, Jean-Joseph Goux and Eric Boynton
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • Introduction (Edith Wyschogrod, page 1)
  • PART 1. THE ECONOMY OF SACRIFICE
    • 1. Some Things You Give, Some Things You Sell, but Some Things You Must Keep for Yourselves: What Mauss Did Not Say about Sacred Objects (Maurice Godelier, page 19)
    • 2. The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities (George E. Marcus, page 38)
    • 3. Capitalizing (on) Gifting (Mark C. Taylor, page 50)
  • PART 2. COMMUNITY, GIFT, AND SACRIFICE
    • 4. "Even Steven," or "No Strings Attached" (Stephen A. Tyler, page 77)
    • 5. Mothering, Co-muni-cation, and the Gifts of Language (Genevieve Vaughan, page 91)
  • PART 3. THE GIFT OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE
    • 6. The Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving (John D. Caputo, page 117)
    • 7. Seneca against Derrida: Gift and Alterity (Jean-Joseph Goux, page 148)
    • 8. Giving (Adriaan Peperzak, page 161)
  • Contributors (page 177)
  • Index (page 179)
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Published: 2002
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780823221653 (hardcover)
  • 9780823221660 (paper)
Series
  • Fordham Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Subject
  • Philosophy
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