Politics of the gift : towards a convivial society /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol, UK :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Alternatives to capitalism in the 21st century
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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