Olli Pyyhtinen

The Gift and its Paradoxes

Beyond Mauss

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781409450979
• ISBN-10: 140945097X
• Artikelnr.: 41252406

Autorenporträt

Olli Pyyhtinen is is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland and author of Simmel and 'the Social'.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Genesis
The (im)possible gift
The generosity of the given
Parasites' paradise (aka like hopping on the beach)
In/exclusions: the gift of blood and alms for the poor
Gendered economies of the gift
Making a gift of death
The gift is not one
Bibliography
Index.