More Blessed / Sharon Olds
Introduction: Why Gift? / Alan D. Schrift 1
Pt. 1 Documents
Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson 25
Gift, Gift / Marcel Mauss 28
Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary / Emile Benveniste 33
Pt. 2 Readings of Mauss
Selections from Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss / Claude Levi-Strauss 45
The Spirit of the Gift / Marshall Sahlins 70
Heliocentric Exchange / Rodolphe Gasche 100
Pt. 3 French Re-Appraisals
The Time of the King / Jacques Derrida 121
Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays / Helene Cixous 148
Women on the Market / Luce Irigaray 174
Selections from The Logic of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu 190
Marginalia - Some Additional Notes on the Gift / Pierre Bourdieu 231
Pt. 4 Anglo-American Interventions
Bataille, Gift Giving, and the Cold War / Allan Stoekl 245
What Goes Around Comes Around: Derrida and Levinas on the Economy of the Gift and the Gift of Genealogy / Robert Bernasconi 256
The Metaphysics of Presents: Nietzsche's Gift, the Debt to Emerson, Heidegger's Values / Gary Shapiro 274
Partners and Consumers: Making Relations Visible / Marilyn Strathern 292