A01=Gerald Moore
Author_Gerald Moore
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Gilles Deleuze
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan
Jean-Luc Nancy
Marcel Mauss
Martin Heidegger
politics
Poststructuralism
the gift
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- ISBN 9781399567671
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Marcel Mauss' 'Essai sur le don' (1923–4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Deleuze (and Guattari) and Derrida, to cite only two, engage with the concept of the gift explicitly and repeatedly. 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 a poststructuralist understanding of the relation between philosophy and politics.
Gerald Moore is Lecturer in French in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University. He is the author of Politics of the Gift: Exchanges in Poststructuralism (Edinburgh, 2011), as well as articles on recent French thought (Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler), psychoanalysis and literature (Michel Houellebecq). He is currently preparing a monograph, Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy in the Age of Technology, for Polity.
