Research Catalog

Title

The gift paradigm : a short introduction to the anti-utilitarian movement in the social sciences / Alain Caillé ; translated by Gordon Connell and François Gauthier.

Author

Caillé, Alain, 1944-

Publication

• Chicago, IL : Prickly Paradigm Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Connell, Gordon
• Gauthier, François

Description

vii, 84 pages : illustration; 18 cm.

Summary

In his classic essay The Gift, Marcel Mauss argued that gifts can never be truly free; rather, they bring about an expectation of reciprocal exchange. For over one hundred years, his ideas on economy, social relations, and exchange have inspired new modes of thought, none more so than what crystallized in the 1980s around an innovative group of French academics. In TheGift Paradigm, Alain Caillé provides the first in-depth, English-language introduction to La Revue du MAUSS - or, "Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences," combining the work of anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, and others. Today, the very idea of a "general social science" seems unthinkable, unless you count the pervasive sway of a utilitarian logic in orthodox economics, or the diffuse influence of neoliberalism. Here, Caillé offers a distinctly different reading of economy and society, inspired by Mauss - as vital now as ever. --

Series Statement

Paradigm ; 57

Uniform Title

• Anti-utilitarisme et paradigme du don. English
• Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) ; 57.

Alternative Title

Anti-utilitarisme et paradigme du don.

Subject

• Mouvement anti-utilitariste dans les sciences sociales (Paris, France)
• Social sciences > Philosophy
• Gifts > Philosophy
• Social sciences > Methodology
• Utilitarianism

Note

• Originally published in French as Anti-utilitarisme et paradigme du don: Lormont : Le Bord de l'eau, [2014]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Contents

ch. 1 Why La Revue du MAUSS and why anti-utilitarianism -- Generalized economism -- A certain vision of sociology -- On some prerequisites for a General Social Science (or general Sociology) -- The question of the nature of utilitarianism -- ch. 2 The gift paradigm -- On the political -- A theory of social action -- The gift in history and today -- ch. 3 Ethical and political Issues -- First fights -- Convivialism.

Call Number

JFC 21-183

ISBN

• 0996635599
• 9780996635592

OCLC

1113400989

Author

Caillé, Alain, 1944- author.

Title

The gift paradigm : a short introduction to the anti-utilitarian movement in the social sciences / Alain Caillé ; translated by Gordon Connell and François Gauthier.

Publisher

Chicago, IL : Prickly Paradigm Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Paradigm ; 57

Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) ; 57.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Translated from the French.

Added Author

Connell, Gordon, translator.

Gauthier, François, translator.

Research Call Number

JFC 21-183