Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money: v.1 - Softcover

Derrida, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226143147 ISBN 13: 9780226143149

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

A consideration of the act of gift giving which considers how the recipient becomes indebted to the giver and enters into a circle of exchange. Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts by Heidegger, Mauss, Benveniste, Levi-Strauss, and Baudelaire.

About this title

About the Author

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was director of studies at the ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books published by the University of Chicago Press. Peggy Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She has written, edited, or translated many books, by Derrida and others, and is coeditor of the series of Derrida's seminars at the University of Chicago Press.

From the Back Cover

Is giving possible? Insofar as it enters into the circle of exchange (gift and countergift, debt, acquittal, compensation, symbolic recognition, memory), the gift seems to get annulled. In order to give, one would have to expect nothing in return: to hope for nothing, to count on nothing from what must remain incalculable.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226143147
• ISBN 13: 9780226143149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184