The Question of the Gift
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-86914-0 (ISBN)
Mark Osteen is Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at Loyola College, Baltimore. He is the author of American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture (2000), and The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet (1995), the editor of the Viking Critical Edition of Don DeLillo's White Noise, and co-editor, with Martha Woodmansee, of The New Economic Criticism (Routledge, 1999).
Introduction: Questions of the Gift Mark Osteen Part I: Redefining Reciprocity 1. A Free Gift Makes No Friends James Laidlaw 2. Unbalanced Reciprocity: Asymmetrical Gift-Giving and Social Hierarchy in Rural China Yunxiang Yan 3. Unpacking the Gift: Illiquid Goods and Empathetic Dialogue Lee Anne Fennell Part II: Kinship, Generosity and Gratitude: Ethical Foundations 4. The Patriarchal Narratives of Genesis and the Ethos of Gift Exchange Charles H. Hinnant 5. The Ethics of Generosity and Friendship: Aristotle's Gift to Nietzsche? Martha Kendral Woodruff 6. Adam Smith and the Debt of Gratitude Eun Kyung Min Part III: The Gift and Artistic Commerce 7. Catullus and the Gift of Sentiment in Republican Rome Jacqui Sadashige 8. Gabriele D'Annunzio: The Art of Squandering Nicoletta Pireddu 9. Conrad's Guilt-Edged Securities: 'Karain: A Memory' via Simmel and Benjamin Anthony P. Fothergill 10. Formed by Homages: H. D., Robert Duncan, and the Spirit of the Gift Stephen Collis Part IV: Posing New Questions 11. Gift or Commodity? Mark Osteen 12. The Ghost of the Gift: The Unlikelihood of Economics Antonio Callari 13. Give the Ghost a Chance! A Comrade's Shadowy Addendum Jack Amariglio 14. The Pleasures and Pains of the Gift Andrew Cowell
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.2.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Anthropology |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-86914-5 / 0415869145 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-86914-0 / 9780415869140 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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