{"product_id":"the-philosophers-gift-reexamining-reciprocity-paperback-softback-9780823286461","title":"The Philosophers' Gift; Reexamining Reciprocity (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823286461","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Philosophers' Gift\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReexamining Reciprocity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarcel Hénaff (Author), Jean-Louis Morhange (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823286461\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.378 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When it comes to giving, philosophers love to be the most generous. For them, every form of reciprocity is tainted by commercial exchange. In recent decades, such thinkers as Derrida, Levinas, Henry, Marion, Ricoeur, Lefort, and Descombes, have made the gift central to their work, haunted by the requirement of disinterestedness.\u003cbr\u003e As an anthropologist as well as a philosopher, Hénaff worries that philosophy has failed to distinguish among various types of giving. \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophers' Gift\u003c\/i\u003e returns to Mauss to reexamine these thinkers through the anthropological tradition. Reciprocity, rather than disinterestedness, he shows, is central to ceremonial giving and alliance, whereby the social bond specific to humans is proclaimed as a political bond. From the social fact of gift practices, Hénaff develops an original and profound theory of symbolism, the social, and the relationship between self and other, whether that other is an individual human being, the collective other of community and institution, or the impersonal other of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslator's Preface\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreliminary Directions\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eDerrida: The Gift, the Impossible, and the Exclusion of Reciprocity   11\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003ePropositions I: The Ceremonial Gift—Alliance and Recognition   30\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eLevinas: Beyond Reciprocity—For-the-Other and the Costly Gift   52\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003ePropositions II: Approaches to Reciprocity   77\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Marion: Gift without Exchange—Toward Pure Givenness   95\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. \u003c\/b\u003eRicoeur: Reciprocity and Mutuality—From the Golden Rule to \u003ci\u003eAgape\u003c\/i\u003e   124\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003ePhilosophy and Anthropology: With Lefort and Descombes   148\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. \u003c\/b\u003ePropositions III: The Dual Relationship and the Third Party   169\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePostliminary Directions \u003c\/b\u003e  199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   215\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   245\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   253\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676665180440,"sku":"9780823286461","price":26.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-philosophers-gift-reexamining-reciprocity-paperback-softback-9780823286461","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}