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Routledge The Gift and its Paradoxes - Beyond Mauss Social Theory

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The Gift and its Paradoxes by Routledge examines the fundamental ambiguities of giving through social theory and philosophy applied to popular films, novels, myths, and fairy tales. This book challenges conventional understanding of the gift as a reciprocal exchange, drawing critically on Mauss's foundational work whilst developing a fresh theoretical framework. Rather than reducing the gift to a model of exchange, the author argues that true giving must entail loss or sacrifice, positioning the gift as an impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving. By exploring the gift's paradoxical nature - simultaneously a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison - the book provides deeper insights into cultural practices, storytelling traditions, and human relationships. Essential reading for students and scholars of social theory, philosophy, film studies, and cultural analysis.

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The Gift and its Paradoxes applies social theory and philosophy to analyse popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, making complex theory accessible through familiar cultural texts.

This Routledge publication critically engages with Mauss's influential gift theory whilst developing an original framework that rejects simple exchange models.

The book explores the paradoxical nature of gifts as simultaneously relations and things, alienable and inalienable, positions and poisons.

Argues that true gifts require loss or sacrifice rather than reciprocal exchange, fundamentally challenging conventional gift-giving assumptions.

Essential resource for scholars in social theory, philosophy, film studies, and cultural analysis seeking deeper understanding of human giving practices.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 140945097X
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 January 2014
Listed Since: 03 September 2013

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