Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy's problematic concepts--the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel's…
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Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept from its origins in philosophy and the social sciences right up to the present Moore shows its central importance for…
Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept, from its origins in philosophy and the social sciences, right up to the present, Moore shows its central importance …
Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept, he shows its importance for a poststructuralist understanding of the relation between philosophy and politics.
Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le don (1923-4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, to name only a few, return to the concept of the gift explicitly and repeatedly. Gerald Moore shows how the problema…
Long description: Was können diskurs- und hegemonietheoretische Ansätze zur Kritik aktueller gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse beitragen? Der Band bietet vielfältige Antworten auf diese Frage. Die Beiträge erarbeiten verschiedene Herangehensweisen zur Analyse und Kritik komplexer …
Was können diskurs- und hegemonietheoretische Ansätze zur Kritik aktueller gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse beitragen? Der Band bietet vielfältige Antworten auf diese Frage. Die Beiträge erarbeiten verschiedene Herangehensweisen zur Analyse und Kritik komplexer und sich überlager…
