Gifts of cooperation, Mauss and pragmatism
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Gifts of cooperation, Mauss and pragmatism
(Routledge global cooperation series / series editors, Tobias Debiel, Claus Leggewie and Dirk Messner)
Routledge, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation. It shows that Mauss's essay "The Gift" (1925) can be seen as a classic of a pragmatist, interactionist and anti-utilitarian sociology. It critiques the dichotomy of self-interest and normatively orientated action that forms the basis of sociology. This conceptual dichotomization has caused forms of social interaction (that cannot be localized either on the side of self-interest or on that of morality) to be overlooked or taken little notice of. The book argues that it is the logic of the gift and its reciprocity that accompany and structure all forms of interaction, from the social micro to the macro-level. It demonstrates that in modern societies agonistic and non-agonistic gifts form their own orders of interaction.
This book uniquely establishes the paradigm of the gift as the basis for a theory of interaction. It will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduates in social theory, cultural theory, political sociology and global cooperation, anthropology, philosophy and politics.
Table of Contents
Preface Part 1 Marcel Mauss and the Foundations of a Theory of Gift-Giving 1. A Dichotomy in Action Theory 2. Marcel Mauss and the French Tradition in Social Theory 3. Mauss's Gift 4. In Conflict of Interpretations: Rereading 'The Gift' Part 2 Homo donator: Pragmatism and the Ability to Give 5. A Pragmatist Action Model 6. Pragmatism on Creativity, Cooperation, and Radical Democracy Part 3 Locating the Gift in Modern Society 7. The Orders of the Gift: Ordinary and Extraordinary Gifts 8. Constituting the 'Game' of Gifts 9. What Motivates Giving? 10. Language, Gift, and Symbolic Media of Communication 11. Micro/Macro: Where's the Gift? 12. Commodities, Value, and the Gift: Marx, Mauss, and Polanyi 13. Mauss and Money 14. The Politics of Sacrifice Part 4: Applications: Gifts of Cooperation 15. Mauss's Socio-Economic Vision Then and Now: Socialism, Cooperatives, and Solidarity Economy 16. The Gift in Civil Society and Philanthropy 17. Conviviality and Convivialism: Practice and Theory
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