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Informationen zum Autor Marcel Hénaff is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his work Le Prix de la Vérité: Le don, l'argent, la philosophie (2002) which won the Grand Prize for Philosophy from the French Academy and the Philosophy Prize from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Paris and has been translated into five languages. Klappentext For philosophers, the gift fascinates because it demands disinterested generosity. Yet anthropology offers another view. Reciprocity, rather than disinterestedness, Hénaff shows, is central to ceremonial giving, alliance, and the social bond. From actual gift practices, Hénaff develops an original and profound theory of symbolism, the social, and the relationship between self and other. Zusammenfassung For philosophers, the gift fascinates because it demands disinterested generosity. Yet anthropology offers another view. Reciprocity, rather than disinterestedness, Hénaff shows, is central to ceremonial giving, alliance, and the social bond. From actual gift practices, Hénaff develops an original and profound theory of symbolism, the social, and the relationship between self and other. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Preface | vii Preliminary Directions | 1 1. Derrida: The Gift, the Impossible, and the Exclusion of Reciprocity | 11 2. Propositions I: The Ceremonial Gift-Alliance and Recognition | 30 3. Levinas: Beyond Reciprocity-For-the-Other and the Costly Gift | 52 4. Propositions II: Approaches to Reciprocity | 77 5. Marion: Gift without Exchange-Toward Pure Givenness | 95 6. Ricoeur: Reciprocity and Mutuality-From the Golden Rule to Agape | 124 7. Philosophy and Anthropology: With Lefort and Descombes | 148 8. Propositions III: The Dual Relationship and the Third Party | 169 Postliminary Directions | 199 Acknowledgments | 213 Notes | 215 Bibliography | 245 Index | 253 ...
