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Frank Adloff
Politics of the Gift
Towards a Convivial Society

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This book is primarily aimed at an academic audience, including students from the B.A. level onwards. It would be listed under the areas of social and political theory, cultural theory, critical theory, political and economic sociology and anthropology. The book can be used in courses of sociology, anthropology, philosophy, socio-economics and politics.

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Table of Content

Introduction: From Capitalism’s Crises to a Convivial Society
Part 1: An Anthropology of Giving
1. Self-interest, Altruism, and the Gift
2. Mauss’ Gift
3. ‘Homo donator’: A Different Anthropology
Part 2: Society’s Gifts
4. Locating the Gift in Society
5. The Gift between Socialism and Capitalism
6. Commodities, Values, Money, Gifts
Part 3: Crossing the Borders
7. Science and Technology, Nature and Conviviality
8. Gifts of Nature
9. Civil Society, Conviviality, Utopia
Part 4: Worlds of Conviviality
10. Aesthetic Freedom, or The Gift of Art
11. Pluriversalism: Towards a European and Global Politics of Conviviality
Conclusion

About the author

Frank Adloff is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg and the co-director of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies, Futures of Sustainability.

Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 186 ● ISBN 9781529226249 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Publisher Bristol University Press ● City Bristol ● Country GB ● Published 2022 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8674172 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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