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The Work and the Gift (Hardcover)
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The Work and the Gift (Hardcover)
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"The Work and the Gift" considers how working and giving are taken
for opposites and revealed as each other's ghostly shadow. We ask
ourselves, for instance, to work for a wage and a living, dooming
ourselves forever to the curse of daily toil; and yet we imagine
the magnum opus or the oeuvre as a labor of love. We ask ourselves
to give with no thought of return; yet we still tell ourselves to
give only to the deserving and only where our giving will do some
good.
Ranging from Marx and Derrida to Friedrich Hayek and Alvin Toffler,
Scott Cutler Shershow here explores the predictions of political
thinkers on both the left and the right that work is fundamentally
changing, or even disappearing; the debates among anthropologists
and historians about an archaic gift-economy that preceded
capitalism and might reemerge in its wake; contemporary political
battles over charity and social welfare; and attempts by modern and
postmodern artists to destabilize the work of art as we know it.
Ultimately, Shershow joins other contemporary thinkers in
envisioning a community of unworking, grounded neither in ideals of
production and progress, nor in an ethic of liberal generosity, but
simply in our fundamental being-in-common. What results is a
brilliant intervention in critical theory and social thought that
will be of enormous value to students of literary criticism,
anthropology, and philosophy alike.
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