Politics of the Gift

Exchanges in Poststructuralism

By:

Gerald Moore

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Crosscurrents

Show Hide Adult Content

$320.99

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Wrap this item as a gift ($5.90) - add a free gift card on the next page

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $80.25 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 24 Jun - 4 Jul using International Courier

Description

Marcel Mauss' 'Essai sur le don' (1923--4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Deleuze (and Guattari) and Derrida, to cite only two, engage with the concept of the gift explicitly and repeatedly. 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.

Author Biography:

Gerald Moore teaches French literature and philosophy at Wadham College, University of Oxford, having previously taught at Universite Paris-Est Creteil (formerly Paris-12) and the University of Cambridge. He has published on Michel Houellebecq, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, amongst others, and translated works by writers including Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault. He is currently preparing a book on Michel Houellebecq and Bernard Stiegler, titled After Laughter: Irony and Sacrifice at the End of the World.

Release date Australia

April 25th, 2011

Author

Gerald Moore

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

240

Series

Crosscurrents

Dimensions

156x234x20

ISBN-13

9780748642021

Product ID

10405822

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here