Author : Olli Pyyhtinen
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ISBN 13 : 9781409450986
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)
Book Synopsis The Gift and Its Paradoxes by : Olli Pyyhtinen
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.