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The Gift and its Paradoxes
Dr Olli Pyyhtinen
其他書名
Beyond Mauss
出版Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2014-02-14
主題Philosophy / PoliticalSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Death & DyingSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / CulturalPhilosophy / Social
ISBN140945097X9781409450979
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zmN9BAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.