The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity

ISBN-13: 9780415910989 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 348 str.

Alan D. Schrift

Opis

The theme of the gift can be located at the centre of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology and economics. This text offers several essays on gifts and gift-giving, and adds to them new essays written for this collection. The list of contributors includes Emerson Helene Cixous, Marshall Sahlins, Pierre Bourdieu, Gayatri Chakrovrty Spivak and Allan Stoekl.

O autorze

Alan Schrift is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College and the author of Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation (Routledge, 1990) and Nietzsche's French Legacy (Routledge, 1995).