Politics of the Gift: Towards a Convivial Society

Frank Adloff

doi:10.46692/9781529226256

Politics of the Gift

Towards a Convivial Society

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Frank Adloff, Universität Hamburg

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: June 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781529226256
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529226256

Subjects:: Social Theory, Physical Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology

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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.

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Towards a Convivial Society

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Introduction: From Capitalism’s Crises to a Convivial Society
pp 1-10

Part I - An Anthropology of Giving
pp 11-12

1 - Self-interest, Altruism, and the Gift
pp 13-24

2 - Mauss’ Gift
pp 25-37

3 - Homo Donator: A Different Anthropology
pp 38-52

Part II - Society’s Gifts
pp 53-54

4 - Locating the Gift in Society
pp 55-69

5 - The Gift between Socialism and Capitalism
pp 70-80

6 - Commodities, Values, Money, Gifts
pp 81-96

Part III - Crossing the Borders
pp 97-98

7 - Science and Technology, Nature and Conviviality
pp 99-107

8 - Gifts of Nature
pp 108-118

9 - Civil Society, Conviviality, Utopia
pp 119-128

Part IV - Worlds of Conviviality
pp 129-130

10 - Aesthetic Freedom, or The Gift of Art
pp 131-140

11 - Pluriversalism: Towards a European and Global Politics of Conviviality
pp 141-153

Conclusion
pp 154-158

Notes
pp 159-160

References
pp 161-181

Index
pp 182-186

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