Politics of the gift / [electronic resource]
Moore, Gerald,Dr,author.
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.
Cover; Copyright; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction: Spectres of Mauss; 1. Speech, Sacrifice and Shit: Three Orders of Giving in the Thought of Jacques Lacan; 2. The Eternal Return of the Gift: Deleuze (and Derrida) contra Lacan; 3. Repeating the Political: Heidegger and Nancy on Technics and the Event; 4. 'Pour en finir avec . . .': Democracy and Sacrifice; Conclusion: Variations on a Theme from Nietzsche; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Poststructuralism
Gifts