Price of Truth - Gift, Money, and Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor In 2002, The Price of Truth was awarded the Grand Prize for Philosophy by the Académie Française and the Prize for Philosophy by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. Marcel Hénaff is Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Sade, the Invention of the Libertine Body (1999), Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology (1998), and Public Space and Democracy (2001). Klappentext Without stigmatizing commercial activity, this book takes a philosophical and anthropological look at the universe of the gift, debt, and money in the West from ancient Greece to the present in order to examine how and why knowledge has long been assumed to be priceless. Zusammenfassung Without stigmatizing commercial activity, this book takes a philosophical and anthropological look at the universe of the gift, debt, and money in the West from ancient Greece to the present in order to examine how and why knowledge has long been assumed to be priceless.

Product details

• Authors: Marcel Henaff, Marcel Hénaff, HENAFF MARCEL
• Assisted by: Jean-Louis Morhange (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2010
• EAN: 9780804760829
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6082-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology