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1 online resource |
| Series |
Alternatives to capitalism in the 21st century |
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 capitalism is broken |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2022) |
| Subject |
Common good.
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Civil society.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Civil society
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Common good
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1529226252 |
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9781529226256 |
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9781529226249 |
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1529226244 |
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