Download or read book Politics of the Gift written by Gerald Moore and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept, from its origins in philosophy and the social sciences, right up to the present, Moore shows