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The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living (Paperback)
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The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living (Paperback)
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European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the
world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only
an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is
also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by
making a case for an "economy of thought" and a "political
economy." It argues that all thinking and doing presupposes taking,
and therefore giving, as the price to pay for taking; or that there
exists a "cost of living," which renders the idea of free thinking
and living untenable. The argument is developed against the
Enlightenment directive to think for oneself as the means of
becoming autonomous and shows that this "light," given to the rest
of the world as a gift, turns out to be nothing.
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