Gift and economy : ethics, hospitality and the market /

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Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 216 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Gifts -- Philosophy. Gifts -- Moral and ethical aspects. Gifts -- Economic aspects. Gifts -- Social aspects. Generosity. Generosity. Gifts -- Economic aspects. Gifts -- Social aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168990

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Other authors / contributors:	Severson, Eric R., 1974-
ISBN:	1443834254 9781443834254 1283436175 9781283436175 1443833835 9781443833837 9786613436177 6613436178
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Is it possible to really give a gift? This may, at first glance, seem like a peripheral question for philosophy, which normally directs its attention to seemingly bigger questions. The dynamics of the gift move into philosophy from anthropology and sociology, but Jacques Derrida insists that this question belongs at the heart of philosophy. This volume takes up Derrida's challenge to invest in the question of a gift, and the relationship between gift and economy. The powerful and corruptive f ...
Other form:	Print version: 1443833835 9781443833837

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Economy, gift and mystery / Eric R. Severson
pt. I: Anatomy of a gift. Presencing of the gift and the economy of exchange / Sharon R. Harvey
The excess of the gift in Jean-Luc Marion / Christina M. Gschwandtner
History as sacrament / Craig Hovey
Gift, love and divine commands / Joshua Kira
The gifts of God for the people of God : communion as Derrida's impossible gift / John McAteer
The hermeneutics of the gift : a dialogue / Richard Kearney, Eric R. Severson
pt. II: Economy and power. Sign and economy / John Brittingham
Process philosophy as the onto-theo-logic of state regulated capitalism / John W. Wright
Modern philosophy and the economic subversion of natural and ecclesial personhood / Eric Manchester
A reflection on Wesley's socio-economic ethics and the poverty of third world economies / Paul Boafo
Is Christian hope a form of long term economy? : an argument from the writings of Albert Camus / Joseph Bankard
pt. III: Grace, gift and exchange. Gifts of death or subjects of grace? / Ben Suriano
Can Augustine welcome intersexed bodies into Heaven? / Teri Merrick
On recovering the gift for the market economies of exchange / Randy Ramal.

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