Politics of the gift : towards a convivial society /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adloff, Frank (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.
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