The Gift and Its Paradoxes
Author | : Olli Pyyhtinen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
ISBN-10 | : 1409450988 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781409450986 |
Rating | : 4/5 (986 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Gift and Its Paradoxes written by Olli Pyyhtinen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.