{"product_id":"the-philosophers-gift-reexamining-reciprocity-paperback-1","title":"The Philosophers' Gift: Reexamining Reciprocity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcel Hénaff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJean-Louis Morhange\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marcel Hénaff asks why the gift has become a topic of such intense interest among philosophers of ethics. Might the idea of the gift as a figure of absolute generosity be a lament about the absence of just institutions? Hénaff asks philosophy to relinquish its idealism in favor of what a more empirical anthropology teaches about the functions of giving in creating the social and institutional conditions necessary for being together among strangers. This book is his gift to politics.\"--Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A significant contribution to debates on the gift that have played out within continental philosophy.\"--Ryan Coyne, University of Chicago \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation.\u003c\/b\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. 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarcel 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, \u003ci\u003eClaude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Truth: Gift, Money, and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean-Louis Morhange's prior translations include Pascal Baudry's \u003ci\u003eFrench and Americans: The Other Shore\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42603019108448,"sku":"9780823286461","price":78.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/emk5QjRIWVlhR2J4UWE0Mkp4UnBrUT09.webp?v=1771797358","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-philosophers-gift-reexamining-reciprocity-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}