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Politics of the Gift : Towards a Convivial Society /

Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', this book shows that trust is the only glue that holds societies together, and people are giving beings and they who can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing utility personal gain in...

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Autor principal: Adloff, Frank (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Series page -- Politics of the Gift: Towards a Convivial Society -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Introduction: From Capitalism's Crises to a Convivial Society -- Part I An Anthropology of Giving -- 1 Self-interest, Altruism, and the Gift -- Exchange and norms -- Utilitarian approaches -- Altruism or social capital? -- 2 Mauss' Gift -- Asymmetry, the agonistic, and the non-agonistic gift -- 3 Homo Donator: A Different Anthropology -- A pragmatist model of action and emotion -- Embodied primary and secondary intersubjectivity in early childhood 
505 0 |a Prosocial primates? -- The will to cooperate -- Part II Society's Gifts -- 4 Locating the Gift in Society -- Ordinary vs. extraordinary gifts -- Miso/meso/macro: where is the gift located? -- Motivations -- The gift as a medium of symbolic communication -- 5 The Gift between Socialism and Capitalism -- Mauss, the socialist -- Beyond capitalism: solidarity economy and post-growth -- 6 Commodities, Values, Money, Gifts -- Gifts, goods, and values -- Mauss and money -- Part III Crossing the Borders -- 7 Science and Technology, Nature and Conviviality -- Science and instrumentality 
505 0 |a Naturalism, culturalism, and other worldviews -- A new conception of nature, science, and technology? -- 8 Gifts of Nature -- A new conception of matter and life -- Gifts, values, conviviality -- Us and Gaia: conflict or alliance? -- 9 Civil Society, Conviviality, Utopia -- Gift and civil society -- Convivial practices -- Conviviality: an analytical and normative model -- Real utopias of conviviality -- Part IV Worlds of Conviviality -- 10 Aesthetic Freedom, or The Gift of Art -- Theoretizations -- Reconciling art and life? 
505 0 |a 11 Pluriversalism: Towards a European and Global Politics of Conviviality -- Colonialism and postcolonialism -- From universalism to pluriversalism -- Beyond "development" -- Quo vadis, Europe? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover 
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