What Gives (with Derrida)?

European Journal of Social Theory 2 (2):131-145 (1999)
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This article is a close reading of Jacques Derrida's critique of Marcel Mauss's classic, The Gift, and its revision through Charles Baudelaire's `The Counterfeit Coin'. Derrida's rejection of any exchange/reciprocity relation in the gift as an immoral binding of free subjects strangely accommodates the current ideological crisis of the gift in welfare societies. Moreover, Derrida's textual substitution of Baudelaire for Mauss repeats the counterfeit practice on which his own aporia of the gift is based.

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The time(s) of the gift.John O'Neill - 2001 - Angelaki 6 (2):41 – 48.
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