Enigma Of Gift And Sacrifice; Editor: Wyschogrod, Edith; Editor: Boynton, Eric; Hardback; Book

Editor: Wyschogrod, Edith; Editor: Boynton, Eric
Series#:22; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (Hardcover); Hardback; Book
176 pages
Published: March 2002
Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823221652

What does it mean to give a gift? Is the gift an expenditure without reserve? Is there such a thing as a pure gift? Or does the gift inevitably set off a circle of return the effect of which is to annul the gift and reduce the gift to an economic circle? In this timely and outstanding collection of studies editors Edith Wyschogrod, Jean-Joseph Goux, and Eric Boynton have brought together a distinguished group of anthropologists -- Maurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyler -- and philosophers -- Mark C. Taylor, John D. Caputo, Jean-Joseph Goux and Adriaan Peperzak, who debate these issues with rich empirical studies and incisive philosophical explorations that make a major contribution to understanding a philosophical enigma that has disturbed contemporary philosophers fromWhat does it mean to give a gift? Is the gift an expenditure without reserve? Is there such a thing as a pure gift? Or does the gift set off a circle of return? This collection of studies debates these issues with empirical studies and philosophical explorations.