{"product_id":"the-philosophers-gift-reexamining-reciprocity-9780823286461","title":"The Philosophers' Gift: Reexamining Reciprocity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13447020\"\u003eMarcel Hénaff\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823286461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823286460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI043000\"\u003eMovements | Post-Structuralism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC002010\"\u003eAnthropology | Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-REL\"\u003eReligion\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-REL017000\"\u003eComparative Religion\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcel Hénaff (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Marcel Hénaff (1942-2018) was Distinguished Research Professor of Literature and Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His books in English include \u003ci\u003eSade: The Invention of the Libertine Body\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 1999), \u003ci\u003eClaude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2001), and \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Truth: Gift, Money, and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2010). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Louis Morhange (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jean-Louis Morhange is the translator of Pascal Baudry's \u003ci\u003eFrench and Americans: The Other Shore\u003c\/i\u003e (Les Frenchies, Inc., 2005) and of Marcel Hénaff's \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Truth: Gift, Money, and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2010). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581346902253,"sku":"9780823286461","price":61.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_b54e69b5-acd8-4643-af20-ddc8774d63ec.jpg?v=1702088228","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-philosophers-gift-reexamining-reciprocity-9780823286461","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}